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Copyright By OLIN M. OWEN. 
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CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER. PAGE, 

I Civilized Cannibalism 7 

II Kiches 12 

III Kags and Wretchedness 16 

IV Rum 28 

V Our Young Men 41 

VI Eum, Prostitution and Gambling 46 

VII Religion..,. 52 

VIII Rum and Rome ....'. 63 

IX Rome, a Political Party 82 

X << The Way Out "-the church should lead 100 

XI " The Way Out "—emigration 113 

XII " The Way Out "—Liquor and Labor 118; 



THE ILLUSTRATIONS. 



We desire to give due credit for the illustrations used 
in this work. The frontispiece we purchased in New 
York city. The pictures on pages 34 and 44 are used by 
permission, from "The Crystal River." We think the 
cut on page 54 originally appeared in " The Beacon." 
The cartoons on pages 64, 114 and 116 appeared origin- 
ally in America, Chicago, in 1889, and for permission to 
use the same we are indebted to Mr. Slason Thompson of 
the above named city. " The Christian Herald" (N. Y.), 
allows us to use the pictures on pages 31, 47 and 93. 
The balance of the illustrations are covered by copyright 
of this book. 

O. M. Owen. 



KUM, BAGS AND BELIGION. 

I. 

CIVILIZED CANNIBALISM. 

In that remarkable work, " In Darkest England 
and the Way Out," Gen. Booth has drawn a powerful 
analogy between the condition of the pygmy cannibals 
in the heart of the " Dark Continent" and the 
condition of the poor and degraded in England. 
Thousands of these, through force of circumstances 
which sometimes they cannot control, and for which 
they are not responsible, are compelled to sin or 
starve. In the midst of England's greatness, under 
the shadow of vast cathedrals erected in the name of 
religion, Mr. Booth estimates that there are 3,000,000, 
or " one-tenth" of the population, constantly im- 
poverished and debased. 

He says: "England emancipated her negroes 
sixty years ago at a cost of £40,000,000 and has never 
ceased boasting about it since. But at our own doors, 
from 'Plymouth to Peterhead' stretches this waste 
continent of humanity — thiee million human beings 
who are enslaved — some of them to task masters as 
merciless as any West Indian overseer, all of them to 
destitution and despair." 



8 RUM, RAGS AND RELIGION. 

Though he has drawn 

A Dark Picture 

he might have put a few more black spots on the 
canvas. 

Behold a powerful nation, through a licensed rum 
traffic, acting the part of an immense cannibal in de- 
vouring the money, health and happiness of its subjects ; 
a nation boasting that on its flag "the sun never 
sets," forging chains of drunkenness, and riveting 
them upon its citizens. To do this where civilization 
prevails is terrible, but to fasten these fetters upon 
those in heathen darkness, who live under the British 
flag, and should have its protection, instead of its op- 
pressive degradation, is diabolical in the extreme. 
Look again ! See this powerful government, for the 
sake of gold, destroying millions of its subjects in 
India by opium. 

An Opium Den. 

Mr. Alfreds. Dyer, Editor of the Bombay Guardian, 
writes : " On Christmas Eve (1890) two newly-arrived 
missionaries, and two others, accompanied me to view 
some of the samples in Bombay of tne licensed 
facilities which the British Government in India pro- 
vide for the destruction of those subject to its rule. 
Centrally situated, close to a large municipal market, 
we pause before a dingy building, and pass into a 



CIVILIZED CANNIBALISM. 9 

large, dark, stinking room, dense with poisonous opium 
smoke. It is a veritable black hole. The first objects 
that are visible in the semi-darkness are two little 
children, of about five and six years of age re- 
spectively, lying on a dirty mat near the 
door in a comatose state. A man is fanning 
one of them, who seems to have been overdosed, 
and is as still as a corpse. We penetrate 
further. Human forms, in all stages of opium stupor, 
including two or three women, are lying thickly to- 
gether on benches, with only a narrow passage between. 
One of my young missionary companions counts eighty- 
eight, doubtless missing some in the obscurity. 
Several of these are emaciated by the vice almost to 
skeletons, and the difficult respiration of one and 
another (suggestive of the ' rattles') tells us that 
death will soon be upon them. But I can stand this 
suffocating opium atmosphere no longer. We all 
make for the street, passing again the two comatose 
children near the door. It is a beautiful, bright, 
balmy night. As I stand again in the fresh open-air, 
I wonder how many Christian people in Great Britain, 
who, to-morrow, in nearly fifty thousand places of 
worship, will celebrate the advent of the Lord Jesus, 
know of the massacre of humanity that is being 
wrought in India and Burmahin the British name." 

W. S. Cain, Esq., M. P., writing to a number of in- 
fluential newspapers in England, says : 



10 RUM, RAGS AND RELIGION. 

"I have seen men in various stages of delirium 
tremens, I have visited many idiot and lunatic asylums, 
but I have never seen such horrible destruction of 
God's image in the face of man as I saw in the Gov- 
ernment opium dens of Lucknow." 

In England the sale of opium is restricted as a 
deadly poison, because its common use would debauch 
and destroy the people. In India the sale of opium is 
encouraged and promoted for the sake of the great 
revenue which comes from the general use of this vile 
and murderous drug. England seems to be in the 
.wholesale business of 

Poisoning the Heathen. 

Under its supervision the Chinese once had 
national prohibition of the opium traffic, except for 
medicinal purposes, and punished severely the vio- 
lators of the law. In 1830 the penal code ordered 
death by strangling for the keepers of opium shops. 
England forced the trade by war and compelled the 
defeated Chinese to pay $21,000,000. On]y after a 
second bloody war, and at the point of the bayonet 
did the Chinese consent to the license system. Not 
only does the Chinese Christian have to bear the 
taunt of having adopted the religion of " the foreign 
devils" who are making China into a hell by their 
opium, but he also has the bitterness of seeing the little 
churc h dec imat e d by the infernal drug. Whole families 



CIVILIZED CANNIBALISM. 11 

sometimes go Dack Into heathenism under its influence. 
The Chinese Christian churches are appealing to the 
churches of the United Kingdom against the horrid 
traffic. Is it not a pitiful sight to see the poor 
heathen trying to free himself from the clutches of the 
civilized man eater? 

The Eum and Opium policy of the English 
government, Christian in name, thwarts to a great ex- 
tent the work of the missionaries sent out by the church. 
What is our government doing? Sending the demon 
strong drink to those sitting hi the regions of darkness. 
Too often on the same ship we send the missionary 
and the rum barrel, the one to save, and the other to 
damn the heathen. 

• Darkest America. 

As there is a "Darkest Africa" with its teeming 
millions, living in ignorance of the God of the Bible, 
and the Christ who died to save, as there is a "Darkest 
England" in the midst of our so called Christian civili- 
zation, with its myriads as degraded as the cannibals 
of the Dark Continent, so there is a "Darkest America." 
The terrible picture drawn by Mr. Booth is largely 
reproduced on this side of the great waters. We love 
to boast of our freedom, our free institutions, and call 
our nation an asylum for the oppressed; but in our 
own land we have the machinery running by law, and 
the social conditions favorable for the pauperization of 



12 RUM, RAGS AND RELIGION. 

our fellow beings. In such a land of plenty, with such 
immense sources of wealth there ought not to be so 
many who suffer the pangs of hell on earth. 



II. 
KICHES. 

Abraham Lincoln prophesied as follows : " I see 
in the near future a crisis arising that unnerves me 
and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. 
As a result of the war, corporations have been en- 
throned and an era of corruption in high places will 
follow, and the money power of the country will 
endeavor to prolong its reign by working upo^n the 
prejudices of the people until wealth is aggregated in a 
few hands and the Republic is destroyed. I feel, at this 
point, more anxiety for the safety of my country than 
ever before, even in the midst of war." 

Senator Ingalls says that 30,100 persons own more 
than one-half the wealth of the nation. Do they pay 
more than one-half the expenses? No, indeed. 
Wm. Waldorf Astor is supposed to be worth over 
$200,000,000. Had Adam been placed on a salary of 
$2,500 per annum and lived to this day he would not 
have been worth as much as are some single individuals 
in this country. One thousand millionaires in New 
York; Jay Gould's income is said to be $7,500 per day. 



RICHES. 13 

Oswald Keatings, L. L. D., says " San Francisco 
alone furnishes fifty Catholic millionaires, and these 
are practically masters of the millions which are now 
being dug out, or lie still concealed in the inexhaustible 
gold and silver mines of California and Nevada. In 
this age, when money is the great god of the world, the 
longest purse has the best chance in everything. 
Money will make wrong right, crime virtue, black 
white, and 'the worse appear the better reason.' " 
Philadelphia has twenty-six millionaires. 

Three females in New York City, we can hardly call 
them ladies, as their course seems beneath true 
womanhood; three females — Mrs. W. K. Vanderbilt, 
Mrs. Ogden Mills and Mrs. Seward Webb have taken 
to wearing crowns at all public places as an indica- 
tion of the queenly positions they are supposed to 
occupy. Each of these crowns is worth a fortune, 
and Mrs. Vanderbilt's is fashioned after the imperial 
crown of England. To become a member of this high 
(?) circle the applicant must be able to register a 
financial standing of eight figures or ten millions. 
Genius, education, and talent all count for nothing 
among those who are admitted to this ring. Verily 

The Golden Calf 

has kicked the sense out of too many Americans. 
Under a system which permits the unhmited accumu- 
lation of wealth by individuals and corporations, 



14 RUM, RAGS AND RELIGION. 

thousands must be and are pauperized. As long as 
there is no restriction here, so long will we hear the 
cry " Give us bread." 

The Arena says: "According to a leading New 
York daily, there are 40,000 women and girls in that 
city whose wages are so low that they must embrace 
vice, accept charity or starve; while one clergyman 
receives $25,000 a year, and others receive salaries of 
$20,000 a year for preaching the Gospel to the rich." 
Several of the churches in New York City cost over 
a million dollars. 

With a national treasury at Washington overflowing 
with gold, with the salaries of Government officials so 
high that men will sacrifice honesty, principle or any 
thing to gain position in the state, with myriads of our 
fellow-beings degraded by the government-enriching 
license systems, with the last Congress voting away 
$1,006,270,474, the largest amount spent by any 
previous Congress in time of peace, with thousands 
half clothed, half fed, and living in ignorance all 
around us, is it not time to " Cry aloud and spare not ? " 

Note this from The Cleveland Citizen: "Carlyle said 
that when honorable, honor-loving and conscientious 
diligence cannot, by the utmost effort of toil, even 
find work, then society is beginning to die. Thought- 
ful men are now looking at the vast multitudes of the 
starving unemployed of London, New York, and in the 
mining districts, and those who would gather wisdom 



RICHES. i5 

from the past, compare the present days with the days 
immediately preceding the French revolution ; and as 
they compare them they see much and startling cause 
for alarm. * * * The Goths and Vandals, who 
trampled out the Koman civilization, were not more 
savage and uncivilized than those which our competitive 
grab and greed system is rearing in our large cities; 
and those who sow the wind must expect to reap the 
whirlwind. * * * It seems incomprehensible that 
statesmen, seeing the rapid concentration of wealth 
and the consequent ever deepening poverty and dis- 
tress, can fail to realize that the end must be the wreck 
of the civilization which causes it." 



16 RUM, RAGS AND RELIGION. 



III. 

RAGS AND WRETCHEDNESS. 

A New York daily recently said : " The average 
wages of 150,000 ill-fated working girls of New York is 
sixty cents a day, and that includes the income of the 
stylish cashiers who get two dollars a day, as well as 
the unfortunate girls who receive thirty cents a day in 
east side factories and shops. The lot of the average 
saleswoman who has not the help and shelter that 
parents or a married brother or sister could share is 
hard indeed. One has only to look into the pale, 
pinched faces of these poor girls to know that thous- 
ands of them are actually starving to death." 

Dr. Talmage says : " One Sabbath night, in the 
vestibule of my church after service, a woman fell in 
convulsions. The doctor said she needed medicine not 
so much as something to eat. As she began to revive 
in her delirium, she said gaspingly : ' Eight cents ! 
Eight cents ! Eight cents ! I wish I could get it done ; 
I am so tired ! I wish I could get some sleep, but I 
must get it done! Eight cents! Eight cents!' We 
found afterwards she was making garments for eight 
cents apiece, and that she could make but three of 



RAGS AND WRETCHEDNESS. 17 

them in a day! Three times eight are twenty -four! 
Hear it, men and women who have comfortable homes ! ' 
Eev. J. 0. S. Huntington says: "Take one block 
in a tenement house district [in New York City] . It will 
measure 700 by 200 feet. On all four sides are rows 
of tenements four or five stories high. Behind one- 
third of the houses in these rows are rear houses, with 
smaller rooms, darker and dirtier passages, backed 
often by another rear house, a brewery, a stable, or a 
factory. Altogether there are 1,736 rooms. In these 
rooms live 2,076 souls, divided into 460 families; thus, 
on the average, each family of five persons occupies 
three rooms. The population of some parts of New 
York is 290,000 to the square mile — the most densely 
populated part of London has 170,000. Of course in 
many cases the family is larger (some of the very 
poorest people take lodgers), and in a number of cases 
we have found fourteen or fifteen grown persons occu- 
pying two rooms or even one. And then many of these 
* rooms' are hardly more than closets and dark closets 
at that. Almost all the bedrooms measure only seven 
feet by nine, and have but one door and one window. 
The door leads into the apartment that serves as 
kitchen, parlor, sitting room, laundry and workshop, 
and the window opens on a dark stairway, up which 
the moisture from the cellar and the sewer gas from 
the drains are continually rising. One -fifth of these 
rooms, too, are in basements below the level of the 



18 RUM, RAGS AND RELIGION. 

street, and nearly half of even the outer rooms open 
into courts only twenty feet wide, in which there are 
usually several wooden privies for the use of the fifteen 
or twenty families in the front and rear houses." 

See the miserable tenements, some of them with twq 
families in one room, sometimes a chalk line 
across the floor as the only partition between the two 
abodes; think of living in rooms without windows, 
floors more filthy than the street pavements, vermin so 
numerous that the inmates prefer to sleep on the door- 
step, or in the parks ; think of dwelling in garrets and 
cellars almost unfit for a beast to enter ; think of the 
thousands who literally have no home; behold the poor 
who must steal or starve; see the children almost 
naked running the streets day and night, sleeping in 
boxes, on the steps, or along the wharves, then behold 
the rich revelling in wealth so abundant it becomes 
burdensome, and we say that the contrast is too great 
for any nation calling itself Christian. Look again at 
the slums which are often simply the lower end of the 
"fast line" which commences among the "upper tens." 
See the low and filthy dives, the miserable, wretched, 
painted, half -starved females on whom society frowns, 
and who sell themselves to keep soul and body together. 
What a sad condition of things when the rich virtually 
devour the poor, and the poor are confronted by the 
alternative sin or starve ! 

The Editor of The Arena, (N. Y.) recently made a 



BAGS AND WRETCHEDNESS. 19 

tour of the slums of Boston. He speaks of the star- 
vation wages paid those in abject poverty by wealthy 
manufacturers. 

"Thirteen cents for fine custom made pants manu- 
factured for a wealthy firm which repeatedly asserts 
that its clothing is not made in tenement houses !" 

Little children, some beginning as young as two 
and a half years old, are drilled to overcast the long 
seams made by their mothers. In one tenement he 
heard the following : " I am forty-three years old 
today" remarked the mother, and, said Mr. English, 
"I shall be forty -two next week." "0 dear," broke in 
the child, "I should think people would grow tired of 
living so many years." 

Once more he says : " They have to buy coal by the 
basketful and pay almost double price, likewise food 
and all life's necessities. They are compelled to live 
in frightful, disease-fostering quarters, and pay exorbi- 
tant rents for the accommodations they receive. 
When sick they are not always free from imposition, 
even when they receive aid in the name of charity, 
and sometimes theology under the cloak of religion 
oppresses them. This last thought had been suggested 
by seeing in our rounds some half starved women 
dropping pennies into the hands of Sisters of Charity, 
who were even here in the midst of terrible w 7 ant, 
exacting from the starving, money for a church wiiose 
coffers groan with wealth. religion, ineffably radiant 



20 RUM, RAGS AND RELIGION. 

and exalting in thy pure influence, how thou art often 
debased by thy professed followers! How much 
injustice is meted out to the very poor, and how many 
crimes are still committed under thy cloak and in thy 
holy name ! " 

We may justly ask, what right has religion to go 
through this world richly attired, loaded with diamonds, 
driving a coach and four, living in a marble front, with 
millions in stocks, bonds, and real estate, while Pov- 
erty trudges past the door in pitiless "Bags" starving 
for the bare necessities of life ! 

" Darkest Africa" 

can present no greater depth of degradation than is 
to be found in our own great centers, under our exist- 
ing civil and social conditions. 

" Hard it is, no doubt, to read in Stanley's pages of 
the slave-traders coldly arranging for the surprise of a 
village, the capture of its inhabitants, the massacre of 
those who resist, and the violation of all the women ; 
but the stony streets of Loudon, if they could but 
speak, would tell of tragedies as awful, of ruin as com- 
plete, of ravishments as horrible, as if we were in 
Central Africa, only the ghastly devastation is covered 
corpse like with the artificialties and hypocrisies of 
modern civilization," — Darkest England, 



RAGS AND WRETCHEDNESS. 21 

" Damned into the World. " 

Is it said that the poverty and degradation of multi- 
tudes is their own fault? Admit it is in many cases, 
in myriads more it is not. 

"For thousands upon thousands of these poor wretches 
are, as Bishop South truly said * not so much born 
into the world as damned into it.' The bastard of a 
harlot, born in a brothel, suckled on gin, and familiar 
from earliest infancy with all the bestialities of 
debauch, violated before she is twelve, and driven out 
into the streets by her mother a year or two later, 
what chance is there for such a girl in this world — I 
say nothing about the next ? * * and with boys it 
is almost as bad. There are thousands who were 
begotten when both parents were besotted with drink, 
whose mothers saturated themselves with alcohol every 
day of their pregnancy, who may be said to have 
sucked in a taste for strong drink with their mother's 
milk, and who were surrounded from childhood with 
opportunities and incitements to drink. " — Darkest 
England. 

Children are sometimes born drunk. 

Scientists understand the law of local affinities, by 
which different poisons taken into the system spend 
the most of their energy upon certain parts of the 
body. The local affinity of lead is for the muscles of 
the wrist, and here it does its greatest mischief, produc- 



22 RUM, RAGS AXD RE LI G I ON. 

ing what is called wrist drop. Strychnine attacks the 
spinal cord — oil of tobacco the heart, etc. The local 
affinity of alcohol is for the brain. It strikes directly at 
the brain, and not at the brain as a whole but at its 
most important part — the cerebrum — the seat of the 
moral and intellectual powers — yea, it takes deadly 
aim at Reason and Conscience. 

Alcohol. 

" Alcohol does not exist in any healthful portion of 
the animal or vegetable creation. As the human body, 
when decayed, is changed to deadly poison, so fruits 
and grains under the processes of decay become 
poisonous, and from the dead and decaying mass, 
when heated, alcohol flies off into the air. By a device 
of the devil called a * still,' this poisonous gas is passed 
through a crooked pipe and condensed into a pungent 
colorless liquid called alcohol, which, unless tightly 
corked and confined, will at once dissipate into thin 
air. This fiery poison is the intoxicating principle of 
brandy, gin, rum, wine, cider, beer, etc. Take this 
out of all these substances, and they will taste as flat 
as dishwater, and no one would drink them. 

"This liquid is indigestible. It is largely thrown off 
by the lungs, as any one can believe who has come 
within smelling distance of the drunkard. A portion 
of it passes to the brain, deranging its action and pro- 
ducing a species of insanity. When the alcohol reaches 
the brain, as it cannot pass readily through the skull, 
it is more likely to remain there than in any other part 
of the body, and there it does its most deadly work. 



RAGS AND WRETCHEDNESS. 23 

"The brain, when healthy, is so soft that it would 
not retain .its shape but for the skull. The sharpest 
knife is required to cut it without mangling its structure. 
It is necessary to immerse the organ in alcohol for 
weeLs or months in order to harden it, when a careful 
examination is essential. A drunkard's brain presents 
a contrast. It is already hardened, pickled almost. 
A celebrated anatomist declared that he could tell a 
drunkard's brain in the dark, by the sense of touch 
alone. A London physician reported a case in which 
he found, upon making a post-mortem examination, so 
strong an odor of alcohol emanating from the brain, 
that he applied a match to it, when it burst into a 
flame. The quantity of alcohol in the brain is some- 
times so great that it can be collected by distillation 
after death." 

Whatever destroys the brain destroys the mind, and 
and whatever disorganizes mind ruins society, and 
whatever ruins society the Government has a right to 
prohibit. Here we make one of our strongest argu- 
ments in favor of stopping the license machine — which 
manufactures drunkards, maniacs and paupers. It is 
a crime against God, against humanity, and against 
unborn generations to permit this machine to run — and 
all for the sake of gold and political supremacy. Yea, 
more it is a crime to permit persons with either alco- 
holic or syphiltic blood coursing in their veins to 
contract the marriage relation. Prohibition here would 
be far wiser than to allow these creatures to multiply 
progeny doomed and damned before their birth. 



24 RUM, RAGS AND RELIGION. 

As good a custom should obtain among mankind as 
men hold in regard to brutes. What community would 
permit beasts to propagate disease? A lower standard 
often obtains among men than men hold in reference 
to the brute creation. The 

Voyage of Life 

is frequently rough when children are born of poor but 
virtuous parents, who are free from poisoned blood, but 
when a craft is launched on life's stormy sea with all 
winds against it, with the inherited dynamite aboard 
almost sure to explode, what chance is there for it 
'mid ocean? What shall be clone with it? Shall we 
sink it at once or try to save it ? 

Many through circumstances for which they are not 
responsible cannot rise without a helping hand. 

We have no sympathy with the lazy- don't-care - 
sponge-your-way spirit, yet it might be more humane 
to feed even this class than allow them to starve. 
Nor have we any sympathy for those that refuse work 
at fair, or even low wages simply because they cannot 
secure big pay, who prefer idleness to earning a small 
income. Thousands, however, are thrown on the wave 
under circumstances they could not and cannot con- 
trol and at last sink into ruin. 



RAGS AND WRETCHEDNESS. 25 

Ouk Plea. 

"Let the wretches work," says one. That is script- 
ural. St. Paul says : 

"When we were with you, this we commanded you, 
that if any would not work neither should he eat." 

We make no plea for laziness, or any excuse for the 
tramps who roam the country to evade honest toil, but 
we make our plea for those who would gladly work if 
they could find it to do. We make a plea for those 
who are impoverished by our cursed License System; 
for the women and girls who have to toil, to make the 
rich richer, receiving barely enough to keep soul and 
body together ; for those who are constantly tempted to 
sin as an alternative between that and starvation. We 
make a plea for those who have started in life under 
the most adverse circumstances, for which they are not 
responsible, and their name is legion. They came not 
into this condition by their own sin, but by the sin of 
others. In short we make a plea for the defence of 
the defenceless. 

Said a New York Supreme Judge, " There is a large 
class — I was about to say a majority — of the popula- 
tion of New York and Brooklyn, who just live, and to 
whom the rearing of two or more children means inevi- 
tably a boy for the penitentiary and a girl for the 
brothel." 



26 RUM, RAGS AXD RELIGION. 

We shudder at the thought of cannibalism in heathen 
lands, and yet is it not practiced at home? When the 
rich oppress the poor what is it but man living on 
man? When a government grows rich on the reve- 
nue from the vices of its subjects what is it doing but 
devouring them ? What is the saloonist who opens a 
death trap and here entices his victims, fastening upon 
them an appetite which soon becomes uncontrollable, 
filling his coffers with the drunkard's means until the 
latter and his family are reduced to rags and wretch- 
edness — what is such a being but a man-eater ? 

Eaten Alive. 

The heathen cannibals do not devour their victims 
until after death, the civilized man-eater devours his 
victim alive. 

W T hen rich men and wealthy monopolies pay starva- 
tion wages, what is it but wealth feeding on poverty? 
What are the marks of premature age and decay on 
many of the young who toil early and late for a small 
pittance but the tooth-prints of the civilized man-eater? 
We do not have to paint any hells for the future, we 
have them all around us. We have only to open our 
eyes to see the lost, and listen to hear the wail of those 
who are temporally damned. 



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IV. 

EUM. 

Much of the wretchedness, poverty and crime can be 
traced directly or indirectly to the Eum Traffic. 

" The statistics of every state show a greater amount 
of crime and misery attributable to the use of ardent 
spirits obtained at these retail liquor saloons than to 
any other source." — U. S. Supreme Court, California 
vs. Christiansen. 

Men love gold, and to get it they will sell the happi- 
ness, health, bodies and souls of their fellow-beings. 
Slaves in America ! Yes, and slave traders, carrying 
on under the sanction of a civilized government a 
traffic which forges chains heavier, and causes misery 
more stinging than the African slave trade ever did. 
Slave holders? Yes, more merciless than the slave 
holders of the sunny south. More than fifty years ago 
that eminent Christian philosopher, Thomas Dick, esti- 
mated that since intemperance dug the first grave, over 
seventeen thousand millions had perished through 
strong drink. More than four hundred nations like 
ours, or seventeen worlds like the one we inhabit, 
damned by Eum. With intemperance on the increase 
the record of the last fifty years would swell the above 



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figures immensely. Every eight minutes a drunkard 
goes from under the stars and stripes to hell. 

A correspondent in the N. Y. Voice recently gave 
a description of 

"The Black Hole" 

in Chicago, which ought to bring the blush of shame 
to every one who favors the Eum curse in the least. 

" "The Black Hole' is about half a mile square, 
bounded on the north by Van Buren Street, east by 
State Street, west by the Chicago Biver, and south by 
Twelfth Street; and although the most disreputable 
locality in Chicago, it contains two of the finest rail- 
road stations in the country, the Wisconsin Central 
and Northern Pacific depot and the Polk Street depot. 

"On the east side of this magnificent depot, on 
Third Avenue, is a solid block of five High License 
saloons and sixteen bawdy houses selling liquor, on 
each of which is emblazoned in large letters the name 
of its female proprietor. Each of the five High 
License gates of hell has a plentiful supply of female 
'waiters,' occupying the building from the cellar to 
the third or fourth story. 

"Beginning one block south of Polk Street and run- 
ning north for three blocks, on Eourth Avenue, there 
is absolutely no other business except saloons and 
brothels. There are in these three blocks forty-four 
saloons and seventy-eight bawdy houses. The latter, 



30 RUM, RAGS AND RELIGION. 

I am informed, all sell liquor under the protection of 
a Government license. Between the hours of 11 a. m. 
and 1 p. m., Feb. 26 [1891] , I walked leisurely along this 
street and was accosted by more than thirty disreput- 
able women standing in the doorways or outside. In 
several of the places where the windows opened on the 
street, or where there are large glass doors, women 
stood looking into the street, their bodies entirely 
nude, and all this within five minutes walk of the Chi- 
cago Board of Trade. * * * 

"Just one block west of Fourth Avenue is Clark 
Street, and here from the Twelfth Street viaduct 
north to Van Buren Street is another saloon-ridden 
locality. More than half the front doors on this street 
for four blocks north from Twelfth Street open into 
saloons, and fully half the remainder into bawdy 
houses. There are ninety-seven saloons in these four 
blocks. Looking north on Clark Street from the 
Twelfth Street viaduct on a bright day the street is on 
both sides literally ablaze with glittering gilt saloon 
signs as far as the eye can see. Here all the crimes 
for which names have been invented are constantly 
being committed. * * 

"Several Chinese gambling dens and opium joints 
also infest this section, and even they seem to have a 
'puiy for the police never bother them. 

"The most pitiable sights to be seen on Clark Street, 
however, are the poverty-stricken children being 



RUM. 



31 



reared in the lap of crime and vice with one inevitable 
career before them, the boys in line for the peniten- 
tiary and the girls for the brothel, the threshold of 
which they will not have to cross, for they are born in 
brothels. I was walking on Clark Street, near Polk, 
when a child not more than five years of age came out 




KILLED IN A RVM FIGHT. 



of a saloon in company with other children who were 
older, but none of them more than twelve. From ap- 
pearances some fiend had been giving them beer. I 
noticed the youngest in particular. Her hair was yellow 
and like silk, but sadly disheveled. Marks of beauty 
were in the sweet face, but the eyes were bloodshot. 
She was too drunk to stand unaided, and, tottering to 
the edge of the pavement, she fell, her scant clothing 



32 BUM, RAGS AND RELIGION. 

and beautiful hair mingling with the dirt of the street. 
Immediately a young woman, whom I took to be her 
mother, emerged from a house next door to the saloon, 
where she had been watching passers-by through the 
shutters, and picked the child up. I asked the woman 
if the little thing was hurt, and she replied : 'No, 
she's only drunk; you go to hell.' * * 

"Over on State Street, the eastern boundary of 'The 
Black Hole,' the saloons are thicker, and several tough 
theatres nourish, the most famous of which is the Park 
Theatre, between Harrison and Polk Streets, and front- 
ing west on State. The whole place is nothing more 
nor less than a huge saloon, with special attractions, 
where prostitutes and criminals of all classes congre- 
gate for their noctural orgies." 

Now if we could point to this "Black Hole" and say 
it is the only one in the nation, we are ashamed of it, 
and mean to annihilate it as soon as possible, it would 
even then be sad enough. But alas, we need not go 
to Chicago to find "Black Holes." We can find plenty 
of them in other cities, not only gilded palaces 
of harlotry but the lowest saloon dens where men and 
women engage in promiscuous dancing and cohabita- 
tion entirely naked, poor, wretched, swearing, drunken 
human beings, sunk below the level of the brute crea- 
tion. We doubt if old Sodom and Gomorrah could 
present such a spectacle as is to be found in many of 
the cities of this great nation. 



RUM. 33 

"Darkest England" or " Darkest Africa " can paint 
no blacker picture than the terrible vices of " Darkest 
America." 

In London there are 14,000 drink shops; in the 
United Kingdom, 190,000 drinking places, and in the 
United States over 200,000. 

In Ireland Mr. Justice Fitzgerald says that Intemper- 
ance leads to nineteen-twentieths of the crime. 

General Booth says: "In Great Britain there are 
1,000,001) of men and women or thereabouts completely 
under the domination of this cruel appetite." 

A Black Street. 

Allow only twenty feet frontage to each of the 
200,000 saloons in the nation and we have a street 
757 miles in length, lined one side solid with saloons. 
Place on the other side all the dens of prostitution, and 
we ask can hell itself present a darker picture? There 
are in New York State 34,226 saloons. Allowing 
twenty feet front to each, we have a street one hundred 
and fifty miles long, or placing them on both sides of 
the road would make one seventy-five miles in length. 

Eum in High Places. 

One thousand liquor dealers in the Inaugural Pro- 
cession of President Harrison! How many slave 
holders were there in the Inaugural Procession of 
Abraham Lincoln? 



34 



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EVERYTHING GOES FOR RUM. 



At state dinners in Washington five wine glasses to 
a plate — four more than Belshazzar had. A special 
correspondent of the Voice says: "At the business 
men's banquet given to the President here (San Fran- 
cisco) last night, fourteen brands of wine and Cham- 
pagne were served. " The Voice says again : "Dur- 
ing President Harrison's visit to this city. (San Fran- 



RUM. 35 

cisco) he was invited to attend a banquet given by 
the resident members of the Phi Delta Theta College 
fraternity of which he was once a member. After a 
few remarks he lifted a glass of champagne, and said : 
'I propose that we drink to the order to which we 
have given our allegiance and our love.'" 

The Vice President's connection with the "Shore - 
ham," at Washington, is too well known. A Tippler 
for President. A Saloon Keeper for Vice President ! 
What a noble (?) example to the young men of 
America ! 

One of the "Darkest" facts in connection with the 
Kum Curse is the complicity of the State and National 
Governments with the crime. 

The government protects the evil, and it will never 
be disposed of until this protection is withdrawn; and 
the government will never withdraw its protection 
until voters stop electing Eum protection candidates. 

There are four links in the liquor chain : the voter, 
the candidate, the law, the saloon. The rum voter 
stands at one end of the chain, the saloon at the other. 

Protection. 

We have protection for Monopolies and Saloonists, 
in short we have protection for the rich, but where is 
the protection for the poor? Protection for the 
drunkard maker, but where is the protection for the 



36 RUM, RAGS AND RELIGION. 

The Black Pyramid. 

a diagram showing the annual cost of intoxicating 

drinks and tobacco, compared with 

other articles. 

Compare tEF« small tbp~etohe~with I the^immenre~roc£ at: the bottom? 
Christian- Missions. Home and Foreign. <-- « - $5,500,000 




RUM. 37 

drunkard, protection for those who are up, but where 
is the protection for those who are down ? 

The drunkard makers we send to the legislatures to 
make laws in their own interests; the drunk- 
ards we send to jail and the gallows. We may 
build a wall of protection around our nation ten 
miles high, put a high tariff on all the merchandise 
that comes into the United States, but as long as we 
license that which degrades our fellows, so long will 
Beggary and Wretchedness walk our streets. 

Within the past few months the United States Gov- 
ernment has descended to the business of drumming up 
trade in intoxicating liquors for the benefit of the brew- 
ers and beer dealers in the nation. Last December 
the Department of State sent out a Malt and Beer 
Circular "To the Consular Officers of the United 
States in Mexico, Central and South America and the 
West Indies," asking for information in reference to 
the imports of beer, whence imported, etc., "so that the 
Malsters and Brewers of the United States may fully 
understand the requirements necessary to successful 
trade in each district." The replies received are 
printed in a fifty-page pamphlet issued from the Gov- 
ernment Printing Office. The United States not only 
licenses the Rum Curse, but uses its Governmental 
Machineiy to drum up trade for the brewers and beer 
dealers of the nation. Shame ! 



38 RUM, RAGS AXD RELIGION. 

Gen. Booth's Work. 

Gen. Booth has done a grand work in providing 
cheap "Shelters," etc., in London. In his book he 
proposes to establish three colonies for the relief of 
the poor ; The City Colony to provide work, food and 
shelter for the "Out of Works," and the degraded; a 
Farm Colony on an estate in the Provinces, and an 
"Over the Sea Colony" in Australia or elsewhere for 
the same purposes. A Salvation Ship will cany those 
who wish to go to the Colony over the Sea. It is a 
vast undertaking, and may he accomplish much good, 
and rescue many thousands from their hell on 
earth. Much of this kind of labor, however, will be 
lost, unless the National Government adopts and en- 
forces National Prohibition. 

So long as any government keeps the grog shops 
running for gold, as long as individuals and corpora- 
tions are unrestricted in the accumulation of wealth, 
so long will there be Poverty, Wretchedness and 
Shame among a large class of people. The only ab- 
solute remedy is to stop the Poverty- Making Machines. 

Rum sellers care little for "Missions" and "Shelters." 
They dread Prohibition. They are willing you should 
get the sot on his feet, as long as they have the legal 
right to knock him down again. 

After abstaining for a time, if he falls, he will be- 
come a better customer of the legalized saloon than 



RUM. 39 

ever. It is dutv to do our utmost to lift up the fallen, 
but as long as the law protected Hoodlum Factories 
are kept running, and men are unrestrained in the ac- 
cumulation of gold, " Missions, " " Shelters, " and 
"Colonies" will solve neither the Liquor nor the Poverty 
Questions. 

We would go with the General in his plan as far as 
he goes and bid him God speed, but to make it com- 
plete he needs National Prohibition of Kum, and 
Wealth Absorb ing Monopolies. 

Unless you can get the drunkard, the drunkard 
maker, the rum politician, and rum voter soundly and 
permanently converted there is no solution of the 
liquor problem but Prohibition. You must either lock 
up the whiskey or lock up the men. 

Some one has used this illustration: " Low license 
is twenty rattlesnakes in a box with twenty holes to 
crawl out. High license is twenty rattlesnakes in 
the box with ten of the holes stormed up, and the 
other holes enlarged so that two snakes can crawl out 
at once. Local option is driving the twenty rattle- 
snakes over into your neighbor's door yard. Prohibi- 
tion is cutting the twenty rattlesnakes' heads off." 
Off with their heads ! 



40 RUM, RAGS AND RELIGION. 



OUK YOUNG MEN. 

One of the "Darkest" facts "In Darkest America" is 
the strong grip Bum, and its accompaniments has 
upon the young men. You may not find gambling in 
the den of prostitution, you may not find harlots in 
the gambling den, but you will find Eum in both. 

We have thousands of young men who are standing 
nobly for God and truth, but the great mass of them 
the Church has no hold upon and they are lost to God 
and his cause. The young men are to be the future 
fathers and law makers. To save the young men is 
to save the nation. 

We give a few quotations from that excellent little 
work, "Dying at the top," by Dr. J. W. Clokey. 

"The National Committee of the Y. M. C. A. has 
sent out a printed statement in which I find that but 
five per cent, of the young men throughout the land 
are members of churches; that only fifteen out of 
every one hundred attend religious services with any 
regularity, and that seventy-five out of every one hun- 
dred never attend church at all. * * 

A city of 17,000 population, 3,000 young men; 



OUR YOUNG MEN. 41 

1,021, over one-fourth, entered forty-nine saloons in 
one hour one Saturday night. 

* * In Leadville, Col., on a certain Sabbath eve- 
ning, 250 young men attended the eight Protestant 
and Catholic churches; the same evening 2,000 of 
the 5,000 young men entered six of the seventy-six 
saloons. * * Mr. Meigs, of Indianapolis, Ind., de- 
livered a lecture sometime since in Terre Haute. Be- 
fore his visit he had seven young men take notes for 
him in that city. The result was on a certain Satur- 
day evening that these young men found 1,045 young 
men enter seven of the 150 saloons; and on the fol- 
lowing Sabbath morning only seventy-five young men 
in all of the churches." 

The following is from the report of the secretary of 
the Y. M. C. A. of San Francisco for 1889: "On 
Sunday evening, August 19, 1888, there were by actual 
count, in all the Evangelical churches, 1892 young 
men between sixteen and thirty-five years of age. On 
the following Sunday evening, August 26, the principal 
theatres, concert and billiard halls, and other places 
of amusement, including saloons, etc., were counted, 
(one base ball match at which there were 5,000 young 
men) and there were found in these places of amuse- 
ment and saloons, including the base ball match on 
the afternoon of that day, 17,933 young men. And 
there were at least 3,000 places of unhallowed influ- 
ences which could not be reached and counted by our 



EVOLUTION OF THE SNAKE. 




WATER -Total Abstinence. WINE -The Moderate Glass. 
no snake: some smake 




RUM- The Drunkards Glass. DELIRIUM TREMENS, 

MORE SNAKE. ALL SNAKE. 




The -End -HELL- The Drunkard ShallNot Inherit The. 
Kingdom Of God"- BIBLE. 



OUR YOUNG MEN 43 

committee on that evening where young men were 
congregated. Putting it at the very lowest estimate, 
we would say on that evening, there were on an aver- 
age five young men visited each of these places, which 
gives us a total of 15,000. By these figures we find 
that there were at the least calculation 32,933 young 
men in the theatres, drinking saloons, and other 
places of amusement on that Sunday evening. This 
report is signed by ten young men representing differ- 
ent denominations. The largest number of young 
men found in any one church was 411 ; the least, six. 
The largest number found in any one theatre was 
1,200, and there were three places where there were 
over 1,000 in each place." Again Dr. Clokey says, 

"Our own sons are the tartars of to-day and the 
walls that incarcerate them would, if placed end to end, 
in a continuous hue, rival in length China's 1,500 
mile wonder. In round numbers seventy 

per cent, of the convicts in our penitentiaries are 
young men." 

Verily over every saloon door might appropriately 
be placed the sign: 

"Boys Wanted." 

The saloon must have boys or it must close up. It 
can no more run without boys than a saw mill without 
logs. Two million boys is what these Engines of 



44 



RUM, RAGS AND RELIGION. 



Hell destroy during every generation. One family out 
of every five must contribute a boy. Do you vote to 
keep the saloon running grinding up boys and con- 
tribute none of your own to keep up the supply? You 




SLUM BTTMMEKS. 



don't want your boy ruined ! Then do not give your 
influence or your vote to keep this youth destroying 
machinery running. 
* Emerson is reported as saying : "The true test of 



OUR YOUNG MEN 45 

civilization is not the census nor the size of our cities, 
but the kind of men the country turns out." 

What "darker" picture can Africa present than the 
tramp, tramp, tramp, of the young men in our penal 
institutions. Ought not the church to arouse, shake 
off its worldliness, seek the Baptism of the Spirit and 
wade in to save the boys ? 

One in sixty of the present population is either in 
prison or ought to be, and this per cent, is being 
rapidly increased by Rum and the importation of crim- 
inals and black legs from foreign lands. 

If all the 

Bkilliant Saloons 

were changed into forbidding shanties, reeking with 
filth, the chances for saving the youth would be greatly 
increased. Vice is dressed up and made attractive. 
Most of the drinkers start on their downward career 
where brimstone is made to shine and damnation to 
sparkle. Parents will mourn over their besotted chil- 
dren and at the same time advocate High License as a 
Remedy — the very thing calculated to make the 
saloon more attrative and a more certain trap for the 
young. High License Whiskey will kill as quick as 
any other whiskey. If a parent favors High License 
or low license, can he consistently forbid his son going 
to the saloon he has helped to create ? 



46 RUM, RAGS AND RELIGION. 

A licensed or regulated evil will never die. License 
means life, Prohibition means death. "When some 
one is said to have been praying "0 Lord, come down 
and cripple the devil," a lady ejaculated, "No Lord, 
kill him, for we don't want any crippled devils around 
here." We favor killing the saloon. 



VI. 

BUM, PBOSTITUTION AND GAMBLING. 

The number of young men who visit houses of ill 
repute is appalling. Bum and Prostitution are twins. 
Licentiousness has nearly honeycombed the nation. 
It moves mostly in secret and when the curtain is 
lifted a little, few are willing to admit the great preva- 
lence of the evil. 

A physician of good standing, who was asked to 
what extent do our young men violate the Seventh 
Commandment, said, "Ninety out of every hundred 
cohabit with women before marriage." 

Many of the courtesans are supported in great style 
for a season, but they go down rapidly to the dive. 
It is not a long journey from the palatial parlors of 
harlotry to the most filty dens. 



OUR YOUNG MEN 



4? 



We are having fastened upon us the licensed pros- 
titution systems of the old world. 

We despise polygamy among the heathen and 
among the Mormons, but as much as these are to be 
deplored, polygamy itself is preferable to the prostitu- 
tion which carries diseases of the worst character with 




IX THK IIAXDS OF SHARPERS. 



it, and infuses poisoned blood into the systems of inno- 
cent children. 

Gambling Dexs. 



Look again at the gambling dens where the venture- 
some and unwary are eaten alive ! 

The love of risk in hope of gaining something for 



48 RUM, RAO 8 AND RELIGION. 

which an equivalent has not been given, intoxicates 
the soul. In some houses gaming is carried on sim- 
ply by chance, in others the house is sure, through 
fraud, to win. 

Dr. Talmage says: — 

"It is estimated that every day in Christendom 
$80,000,000 pass from hand to hand through gambling 
practices, and every year in Christendom $123,100,- 
000,000 change hands in that way. There are in 
this cluster of cities about 800 confessed gambling es- 
tablishments. There are about 3,500 professional 
gamblers. Out of the 800 gambling establishments, 
how many of them do you suppose profess to 
be honest? Ten. There are first-class gamb- 
ling establishments. You go up the marble stairs. 
You ring the bell. The liveried servant introduces 
you. The walls are lavender tinted. The man- 
tels are of Vermont marble. The pictures are 
" Jephthah's Daughter," and Dore's " Dante's and 
Virgil's Frozen Eegion of Hell," a most appro- 
priate selection, this last, for the place. There 
is the roulette table, the finest, the costliest, most ex- 
quisite piece of furniture in the United States. There 
is the banqueting room, where, free of charge to the 
guests, you may find the plate, and viands, and wines, 
and cigars, sumptuous beyond parallel. 

Then you come to the second-class gambling estab- 
lishment. To it you are introduced by a card through 



OUR YOUNG MEN. 49 

some "roper in." Having entered you must either 
gamble or fight. Sanded cards, dice loaded with 
quicksilver, poor drinks, will soon help you to get rid 
of all your money to a tune in short metre with stac- 
cato passages. You wanted to see. You saw. The 
low villains of that place watch you as you come in. 
Does not the panther, squat in the grass, know a calf 
when he sees it ? Wrangle not for your rights in that 
place, or your body will be thrown bloody into the 
street, or dead into the East river. 

In a gaming-house in San Francisco a young man 
having just come from the mines, deposited a large 
sum upon the ace, and won $22,000. But the tide 
turns. Intense anxiety comes upon the countenances 
of all. Slowly the cards went forth. Every eye is 
fixed. Not a sound is heard until the ace is revealed 
favorable to the bank. There are shouts of 'foul !' 
'foul !' but the keepers of the table produce their pis- 
tols and the uproar is silenced and the bank has won 
$95,000." 

Once more; see the men who Bull and Bear stock, 
make merchants tremble, increase the price of the poor 
man's coal, lay a heavier tax on bread and ruin small 
traders. 

What is making " corners " on the necessities 
of life, storing up the grain of the country by million- 
aires and rich corporations, holding it to add millions 
more to their immense wealth, thus keeping bread 



50 RUM, RAGS AXD RELIGION. 

from hungry mouths, what is all this but civilized 
man eating? 

Our Young Women. 

Kum leads to lewdness and thus ruins the girls. 

Vice offers to every fair girl more money than 
she can earn in any other field. The profession of a 
courtesan is a very profitable one for a season. The 
harvest is short, but the way to reach it very tempting 
to those girls who have poverty staring them in the 
face. 

M. M. Wolfe, Superintendent of the Memorial House 
for Homeless Girls in New Orleans says : "I visited a 
'Gilded Palace/ and talked with the proprietor, who 
had kept a house of prostitution for thirty years. She 
told me that her house was the most genteel and quiet 
of any in the city, and that in all the thirty years she 
had been in business, she had never been obliged to 
appear before the police court. The inmates of this 
house were young girls. She said when she first got 
them they were kept for a time quite excluded, not 
permitted to appear in the parlors until she had taught 
them that even in a house of prostitution they need not 
go down in the mud. And she also taught them their 
duty to the church. In a room of this house candles 
burn before a crucifix, and a fountain of holy water 
stands by a cold, hard image where these poor creat- 



OUR YOUNG MEN. 51 

ures prostrate themselves, making the signs of the 
cross and mumbling prayers. Alas ! that so many 
Christians look upon this kind of idolatry without so 
much as lifting a finger of warning." 

Girls often resort to strong drink, to give them cour- 
age to sin. 

"A girl who was educated at college and who had a 
home in which was every comfort, but who, when 
ruined, had fallen even to the depth of Woolwich 
'Dusthole,' exclaimed to us indignantly, 'Do you think 
I could ever, ever do this if it weren't for the drink ? 
I always have to be in drink if I want to sin.' No 
girl has ever come into our Homes from street life but 
has been more or less a prey to drink." — In Darkest 
England. 

A poor but handsome girl is frequently hunted by 
her employer from pillar to post, ground down in her 
wages and finally confronted with the alternative — sin 
— or starve. When she has sold herself to buy bread, 
she is treated as an outcast by the very men that 
ruined her. 

We go to "Dark Lands" and see the degradation of 
women, behold them bought and sold, see wives hired 
out by their husbands for prostitution, and lift up our 
hands in holy horror ; but what of the same things at 
our own doors ! 



52 BUM. RAGS AND RELIGION. 



YH. 

RELIGION. 

Rum, Rags and Religion are more closely related 
than might appear at a casual glance. 

The back bone of the Temperance Movement is the 
spiritual element of the church. Eliminate this, and 
the reformation would collapse. It is also true that 
another wing of the church stands in the way of this 
great reform, stands right between the drunkard and 
prohibition. 

The true Church of God is the grandest institution 
on earth, — the professed church is often the worst. 
False and cowardly religion favors Rum, and Rum 
leads to Rags. 

Let the church present a solid front against this evil 
and Rum would flee the nation. 

Millions in the church are asleep in regard to this 
sin, others are indifferent to it, and too many in com- 
plicity with it. 

It is appalling to think that the heathen are in dan- 
ger of being cursed more by our vices than of being 
benefited by an emasculated Christianity. 

With all Christian nations under the dominion of 
Rum, it is not strange that the heathen should con- 



RELIGION. 



63 



elude that drunkenness is a part of our Religion. It 
may be a part of false, but not of true Christianity. 

With increased knowledge and civilization come in- 
creased capacities for either good or evil. Knowledge is 
power. Rightly used it b etters man, and elevates him far 
above the heathen. Perverted, it sends him below 
those in "Darkest Africa." Civilization without true 
Christianity fails to lift man out of the mire of sin. 
Here is where we fail. The church comes too far be- 
low the New Testament standard of piety to be able to 
carry on reforms as it should. 

The heathen come in contact with the best and 
worst elements of our civilization. The best in the 
Missionaries, the worst in the Rum Power. 

Who Degrades the Heathen? 

It is not the true church that sends Rum to curse 
the heathen. It is the civilized man eaters, who are 
in the Liquor business, and the government legislators, 
many of whom have been elevated to their positions 
by civilized (?) and Christian (?) Rum voters. The 
Mohammedan in Constantinople, when he sees a man 
drunk exclaims, "He has left Mohammed and gone to 
Jesus." What a slur and reproach on Christian na- 
tions ! 

"That prohibition doesn't prohibit is an astound- 
ing statement in view of the fact that more than half 



54 



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"WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE IN THEIR VOTES': 



the populations of the earth (Buddhists and Brahnians 
to tlie number of 340,000,000, Confucians, some 200,- 
000,000, and Mohammedans, some 160,000,000) have 
had effective prohibition in their midst for over a thou- 
sand years. Where prohibition does not prohibit 
among these 700,000,000 Prohibitionists, it is almost 
wholly due to contact with Christian nations, who by 
example and by force have introduced the alcoholic 
poison among them !" — The Drink Problem. 



RELIGION. 55 

Verily, Protestantism has ceased to protest against 
evil, until much of it needs protesting against. 
Myriads of church members in England and America, 
deliberately consent to debauch their sons and daugh- 
ters, by licensing the sale of alcoholic drinks, with full 
knowledge that by this course they are opening the 
flood gates to crime. 

Do not professed Christians sometimes nominate 
Liquorites to the highest offices in the gift of the people 
and then help elect them ? 

Are not Kummies too often trusted with responsible 
positions in the church ? 

The church has catered to the world until Deacon 
and Eumseller, Minister and Infidel, can go hand in 
hand in social and political life. The saloons in many 
of our cities have vastly more influence morally, so- 
cially, and politically than the churches. 

"Who Own the Saloons?" 

H. L. Hastings, says, in The Christian : 
"Many drink-shops in London are said to be the 
property of the established church; and it is stated 
that there are drink-shops and even worse places in 
New York City owned by a great religious corporation. 
Many of these premises are doubtless held upon long 
leases, and so are for the present beyond the imme- 
diate control of their owners ; but it is well to know 



56 RUM, RAGS AND RELIGION. 

who receives the gains of ungodliness which come from 
the trembling hands of drunkards, and which are the 
price of blood and groans and sorrows and heart-breaks." 

The same authority says again : 

"Many men who would not sell strong drink, own 
houses and buildings which are occupied as dram shops, 
and so derive gain from the traffic. 

"A Blue Book*issued by the British Government dis- 
closes the fact that 152 peers of the realm are the 
owners of places in which intoxicating drinks are sold. 
The number of such places owned by these peers is 
1,539. The list is headed by the Earl of Derby, who 
the Blue Book shows, is the owner of seventy-two 
drinking places." 

Bum strikes at the Bible, the School, the Sabbath; 
at everything holy in the religion of Christ. The 
fashionable pulpits are watching the pews more closely 
than they are the drunkard and his needs. Temper- 
ance owes much to the few earnest Christians who ex- 
emplify the religion of Jesus, and who are protesting 
vehemently against this crime, but temperance owes 
nothing to thousands of worldly policy church mem- 
bers. 

Hitherto God has visited churches and nations for 
their sins, and what will come upon this nation and 
the church for tolerating and feeding the liscensed 
Bum Fiend, God only knows. We shall conquer 
drunkenness or drunkenness will ruin America. The 



RELIGION. 57 

Doubtful Amusements 

and gambling schemes resorted to by the church give 
the lie to Christianity. 

A minister visiting a young man of his congregation 
imprisoned for forgery was met with this severe re- 
proof, "You and the church," said the young man, 
"were the authors of my crime. I began the business 
in your Sunday school when they hid a gold ring in 
the cake." 

Said an infidel to Rev. E. P. Marvin: "I think 
your God must be in great need of money by the 
tricks the churches practice to get it for him." 

This minister says : 

"The Sunday schools in Hamilton, Canada, have 
lately furnished three actors for the stage. * * The 
blasphemy of acting the parable of the Ten Virgins, 
with the pastor as Bridegroom, is enacted with ap- 
plause in our churches. * * The church theatre 
trains for the world theatre. * * Salvation by fun, 
is damnation by sin. * * The Primitive Church 
held the young without these worldly devices, and in 
spite of rack, and flames, and lions. * * Probably 
this class of sorry formalists who lead the show busi- 
ness in our churches, and who want to be saved by 
Christ and made happy by the devil, are the hardest 
of all classes to convert. 



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RELIGION. 59 

Said a young man not long since : "I am in great 
distress of mind on account of sin. I want to live a 
Christian, but fear I cannot resist the church card 
parties and the home dancing, which I must do, if I 
keep peace in my soul." And this is the experience 
of too many. They would be true christians, but the 
worldly wing of the church will not let them. 

At an entertainment in a church a lady sang the 
song beginning with "Lord, send me a husband?" 
An owl is supposed to respond, " Who, who ? " when 
she replied, "Almost any one, Lord, will do." This 
was not only blasphemous, but disgraceful to true 
womanhood. 

At another concert several ladies dressed themselves 
in grotesque costumes, and indulged in the same style 
of singing, one piece being "Won't somebody marry 
me, please ?" 

Variety shows, church auctions, grab -bags, donkey 
socials, etc., etc., are not in keeping with the word of 
the Lord, which says, "Come ye out from among them 
and be ye separate." 

The young who are educated by Christian (?) 
parents to parlor dancing, and who attend and partici- 
pate in Church Theatricals soon leam to "take it 
straight," and prefer the regular ball room, with all 
its evil associations, to the parlor dance ; the theatre 
carried on by professionals, to the second rate shows 
gotten up by the church to raise money to save people 



60 RUM, RAGS AND RELIGION. 

from going to hell ! 

The wine bibbing, dancing, gambling and theatri- 
cals indulged in by churches only help to throng the 
broad road that is already crowded with drunkards 
and libertines, . 

The great mission of the church is to save men, not 
to please them. A fawning world is more dangerous 
to the spirituality of the church than a, frowning world. 

Ministers cannot run dime museums, small theatres, 
Mother Goose shows, etc., and make a success of 
preaching the Gospel and getting men ready for 
heaven. 

We shall never succeed in converting the world un- 
til we convince outsiders that much that sails under 
the name of Christianity is not Bible Religion. 

The fashionable, extravagant, pleasure seeking 
route is not the one the Son of God would have his fol- 
lowers take. 

He left all his emblems of royalty on high, came to 
this world in great lowliness, walked among the hum- 
blest, that he might lift man from his degradation and 
bring him to the skies. 

"Where Aee the Earnest Workers ?" 

In Gen. Booth's book are thrilling descriptions of 
the work of the Slum Sisters in New York and London 
These sisters dress as poorly as those among whom 
they mingle, save the rags and filth, and lead lives of 



RELIGION. 61 

self-denial that they may win souls. They "preach the 
Gospel with the mop and the scrubbing brush, and 
drive out the devil with soap and water." They live 
among the degraded and fallen, and visit places as 
filthy as can be conceived, carrying the sunshine of 
the Gospel with them. 

This is doing as the Master did. How many church 
members are willing to make a real sacrifice in order 
to save the lost ? 

How few of the great mass of professors are active 
in the work of the Lord. 

Eev. Dr. Clokey says : 

"In a Presbyterian church which I served as a pas- 
tor, finding that many of the young people who united 
with the church had no conscientious convictions in the 
matter of secret and home and public prayer, I felt 
that the reason of it must lie in the devotionless homes 
of the church. Taking a census of the congregation I 
found but ten family altars among one hundred and 
twenty families." 

Said the Assistant Secretary of the Y. M. C. A. 
in a city of 200,000 population: "We have 452 
active and associate members, yet we cannot muster 
ten consecrated workers out of them all." 

Professors of Eeligion by the million; earnest 
Christians by the hundred. The church may hire her 
operatic singers to screech and howl to the glory of 
God ; she may mumble over her cold, formal prayers, 



62 RUM, RAGS AND RELIGION. 

run her shows and gambling schemes, wrap herself up 
in her self righteousness, and the tide of sin and death 
will roll on unchecked, while sinners go down to hell 
by platoons right under the shadow of tall cathedrals 
erected in the name of Eeligion. Let the church come 
down from her pride and go in for an earnest Christ- 
ianity, let her shake herself loose from all complicity 
with evil, let her protest by prayer and vote against 
sin, let her become charged with power from on high, 
and move out under the orders from the Captain of our 
Salvation, then she would go forth fair as the moon, 
clear as the sun, and terrible as an army with banners ; 
the earth would quake beneath her tread, and dram 
shops would sink to rise no more. 



RUM AND ROME. 63 



VIII. 

EUM AND EOME. 

Has Kome anything to do with "Rum" and "Rags?" 

Yea. Rum and Rome go hand in hand. The first 
witness shall be a noted Romanist, Arch Bishop Ire- 
land of Minnesota, who writes thus in the Catholic 
World: 

"Catholics nearly monopolize the liquor traffic. 
Catholics loom up before the criminal courts of the 
land under the charge of drunkenness, and other vio- 
lations of law resulting from drunkenness, in undue 
majorities. Poor-houses and asylums are thronged 
with Catholics, the immediate or mediate victims of 
drink. The poverty, the sin, the shame, that fall upon 
our people result almost entirely from drink, and, God 
knows, those afflictions come upon them thick and 
heavy." 

It seems, then, that counting beads, paying for 
masses, invocations to the Holy Virgin and holy water 
are powerless to keep "The Holy Church" from "pov- 
erty, sin and shame." What a confession is this from 
a prominent Romish prelate ! The mass of those who 
are in the saloon business and who profess any religion, 



ROME'S FOOTING IN AMERICA. 




" These public schools are a devouring fire and pits 
of destruction; they ought to go back to the devil from 
whence they came." — The Freeman's Journal. 

" The common schools of this country are sinks of 
moral pollution and nurseries of hell.'' 

— The Chicago Tablet. 



RUM AND ROME. 65 

are Eornanists. "The Church" recognizes them as 
good Catholics, and is quite ready to oil them at the 
hour of death. 

In 1888 it bestowed extreme unction on that ex- 
treme bully, John L. Sullivan. Gamblers, prize 
fighters, drunkards and drunkard makers enjoy all 
the privileges of " The Church," provided they pay 
their fees; but some man who dare to stand by the 
Public Schools, as did McGlynn, or dare resent priestly 
oppression, must receive the anathemas of this repre- 
sentative of Christ on earth. The church has its to- 
tal abstinance societies, and according to Arch Bishop 
Ireland no church needs them more. There are a few 
priests who stand by temperance, but the church as a 
church is first, last and always for license. A church 
that believes in and sells indulgences can never believe 
in Prohibition. 

The Baltimore Congress in 1889 declared for "legis- 
lative restriction," "that drunkenness shall be made 
odious," and against "the sale of liquors to minors and 
intoxicated persons," all of which might be endorsed 
by any Liquor Dealers' Congress. It did not officially 
declare for total abstinence, much less for Prohibition. 

The Catholic Church, as a church, cannot go against 
Pium. Bum brings to her immense revenues; she 
also wants the Bum vote to help break down American 
Institutions. 

A writer in the Primitive Catholic says : 



6G RUM, RAGS AND RELIGION . 

"She has a special provision in her Mission Book 
for regulating the conscience of a rumseller, a confes- 
sional formula providing for adulterated liquors up to 
a grade which seems to be entirely left to the good 
taste or judgment of the confessor, and also for Sab- 
bath desecration, outside the hours of Eomish wor- 
ship." 

But here is 

Another Confession 

from a Romanist. Walter Elliot, of New York, a 
priest of high standing, in the Catholic World for Sep- 
tember, 1890, says: 

"Now comes the horrible truth. * * In many cities, 
big and little, we have something like a monopoly of the 
business of selling liquor, and in not a few, something 
equivalent to a monopoly of getting drunk. Scarcely 
a Roman Catholic family among us but mourns one or 
other of its members as a victim of intemperance. This 
is lamentable. I hate to acknowledge it. Yet from 
Catholic domiciles — miscalled homes — in those cities 
and towns three -fourths of the public paupers creep 
annually to the almshouses, and more than half the 
criminals snatched away by police to prison are by bap- 
tism and training members of our church. Can any- 
one deny this? Or can any one deny that the iden- 
tity of nominal Catholicity and pauperism existing 



RUM AND ROME. 6? 

in our chief centers of population is owing to the drunk- 
enness of Koman Catholics? * * This detestable vice 
has been a veritable beast in the vineyard of the 
Lord, making its lair in the very precinct of the build- 
ings containing the confessional and the altar. I will 
give you an exanrple. For twenty years the clergy of 
the parish of St. Paul the Apostle, New York, have 
had a hard and uneven fight to keep saloons from 
the very church door, because the neighborhood of a 
Roman Catholic Church is a good stand for the saloon 
busmess ; and this is equally so in nearly every city in 
America. Who has not burned with shame to run 
the gauntlet of the saloons lining the way to the Roman 
Catholic cemetery? Whether it be the christening of 
the infant or the burial of the dead, the attendance at 
the ordinary Sunday mass or the celebrating of such 
feasts as Christmas and New Year's and St. Patrick's 
day, the weakness and the degradation of our people 
has yoked religion and love of country and kindred, 
the two most elevated sentiments of our nature, to the 
chariots of the god Gambrinus and the god Bacchus, 
whose wheels crush down into hell a thousand fold 
more victims than ever perished under the wheels of 
Juggernaut. 

"How can you expect conversions, demands Canon 
Murname in his paper read to the Catholic Truth Con- 
ference at Birmingham, how can you expect conver- 
sions when a Roman Catholic prison chaplain can assert 



68 RUM, RAGS AND RELIGION. 

that of six or seven thousand women brought into the 
prison yearly, more than eighty per cent, are Catholics ?" 

Mr. Elliott should remember that the evils of which 
he complains are the logical sequence of the indul- 
gence system which his church has fostered for cen- 
turies. 

Kev. A. S. Gumbart, D. D., said recently in open- 
ing the Sunday afternoon meeting in Boston : 

"I say, beware how you allow yourselves to be de- 
ceived. I don't think it is in my make-up to be de- 
ceived by any of the sweet things that Borne may say 
or do, because I thank God — and you will pardon the 
pride — that I am a descendant of the Huguenots, and 
I remember that my ancestors once believed some very 
sweet, loving things that Eome said, and had their 
throats cut in consequence. So I am not likely to be 
deceived, but a great many of you are. When a 
Roman Catholic priest offers his services to engage in 
temperance and other work and comes out in a public 
meeting on the same platform with Protestant clergy- 
men and laymen, the people say, what a nice fellow 
he is, ready to stand shoulder to shoulder with every- 
body. Is he, though ? He has his own axe to grind ; 
he does not care where he grinds it, and he would just 
as lief you would turn the grindstone while he holds 
the axe." 

Let not the Temperance people be deceived by the 
occasional priest who poses as a prohibitionist. If 



RUM AND ROME. 69 

Bome cannot crush a reform or an American Institu- 
tion at once, she will seek to give color to or control 
it. Take for instance the 



Public Schools 



the pride of America. Eome opposes them bitterly, 
but forces her own teachers into them as rapidly as 
possible. How inconsistent ! Eome means to control 
the schools until she can kill them. She is ever on 
the alert to advance her own interests. 

The Loyal American, of Chicago, published in 1890 
the names of 1,855 teachers in Chicago Public Schools ; 
of this number 1,146 Were members of the Eomish 
Church. In all our cities Eome would crowd in her 
teachers, to teach Protestant children, and in some 
places, as far as the tutors dare, they teach Eoman 
Catechism. Protestant tax payers, do you want to 
pay the Mother of Harlots to teach your children her 
damning superstitions? Eome crowded out the un- 
sectarian Bible from the schools in many cities, on the 
ground that it made them Sectarian ; now she would 
fain teach her Sectarian bigotry to Protestant children 
in our Un-sectarian Public Schools. Would we think 
it proper for the Mohammedans to come over here and 
dictate how we should educate our children and run 
our institutions ? 

Why then allow this alien Eomish Church, born on 
foreign soil, a church which is ever grasping after tem- 



70 RUM, RAGS AXD RELIGION . 

poral power, and has made trouble in every land where 
tolerated, why allow this treacherous Despot to come in 
here and dictate how we shall educate our youth, and run 
our government ? Rome and Romanized aliens would 
not only drive out the Bible, but the English language 
from the schools and teach instead their foreign 
brogue. Rome uses every means, fair or foul, sal- 
oons and all to gain power and position, and destroy 
our free institutions. 

The Rumseller's candidate is frequently the priest's 
candidate and vice versa. Rob the Rumseller of the 
support of the priest and he would often be as weak as 
other men. Rummies, Priests and Corrupt Politicians 
combine to control politics. 

The cause of so much 

Poverty 

among the Catholic laity is their vices coupled with the 
rapacity of the priesthood. It is money, money, for 
every so-called blessing while living, and not content 
with this, the church follows its victims into another 
world and demands of his friends money, money, to 
release him from an imaginary Purgatory. We need 
a rigid law vigorously enforced that will compel priests 
to show that a contract has been fulfilled before they 
can take money from any person or estate, for praying 
a soul out of Purgatory, or that will place them under 



RUM AXD ROME. 71 

arrest for obtaining money on false pretenses. We 
need another law that will open all nunneries and 
convents to the public the same as Protestant institu- 
tions are. Where Popery rules the mass are impover- 
ished to the enriching of the Priests; there bigotry 
reigns, and beggary and rowdies multiply. 

Who Runs the Saloons'? 

Read in any city directory the names of those who 
keep saloons and you will be surprised at the alien list. 

Note the following classical (?) names: Doherty, 
Murphy, O'Brien, Donovan, Mahoney, Gallagher, 
O'Keefe, Shea, MaguUion, Callahan, Quinn, Hennes- 
sey, Finnegan, McGaheys, Canny, McGrath, Faherty, 
etc., etc. 

These are the men, marshalled and controlled by 
priests and wily politicians, who would overthrow 
law, liberty, and popular education, who would run the 
government, plunder the treasury, and make the 
people the vassels of foreign rarnsellers, a foreign 
priesthood and a foreign Pope. 

Rev. Richard Harcourt, of San Francisco, in his 
"Conspiracy Against the Public Schools" says : 

"Of 8,034 persons engaged in the liquor traffic in 
Philadelphia 6,418 had been arrested for some crime. 
The most immoral centres of New York City are the 
liquor saloons, and yet nine-tenths of these are run by 



72 RUM, RAGS AND RELIGION. 

members of the Roman Catholic church. 

" The Boman Catholics of Scotland are one -twelfth of 
the population, but they furnish one -third of the crimi- 
nals. In England and Wales they are one-twentieth, 
but they furnish one -fourth of the criminals. In Ire- 
land they are three and one -half to one, and yet they 
furnish six criminals to one for the Protestants. * * 
The foreigners engaged in the liquor business in San 
Francisco will outnumber the American born and 
educated nine to one, and ninety-five per cent, of them 
received their education in Catholic schools. * * Go 
into any of our prisons hi this or any other of our 
states, and call the roll of the prisoners and ask each, 
'What is your faith, what is the faith of your father 
and mother ? ' and you will find ninety per cent, will 
answer, 'The Eoman Catholic Faith.' Then if he will 
go through the drinking saloons of our city and ask, 
'What faith were you brought up in," he will have to 
put down the answer eight times out of ten, ' Eoman 
Catholic.' " 

Eome and Crime. 

Father Nugent, the Boman Catholic Chaplain of 
the prison at Liverpool, alluding to the morality in 
that city said as reported in the Catholic Times, No- 
vember 12, 1886 : "Nine out of ten of the girls to be 
seen at night along the London Boad, a Line Street, 



RUM AND ROME. 73 

were Catholics ; there was no use hiding it." As re- 
corded in the Parliamentary Report for 1885, three- 
tenths of Roman Catholics (in Australasia) contribute 
as many criminals as seven-tenths of the Protestants. 

The Tablet (Roman Catholic), in November, 1888, 
published an article in which the writer says : "Upon 
looking into the matter I found that we Catholics con- 
tribute more young criminals than any other religious 
denomination." 

A late chaplain of the states prison at Concord, 
Mass., stated that of some 560 convicts there, 400 
were Roman Catholics, mostly Irish ; more than five 
times their proportion according to population. 

The following table, based on government returns, 
and therefore reliable, shows the proportion of illegiti- 
mate births in the cities named : 

In Roman Catholic Paris, - - - 33 per cent. 
In Roman Catholic Brussells, - - 35 " " 
In Roman Catholic Munich, - - - 48 " 
In Roman Catholic Vienna, - - - 51 " " 
In Protestant London, - - - Four per cent. 
The following is based on a careful digest and com- 
parison of the criminal statistics of the countries 
named. 

The average committals per year for murder in : 
Protestant England is 72 7 or 4 to every million. 
Roman Catholic Ireland is 130 or 19 to every million. 



74 RUM, RAGS AND RELIGION. 

Roman Catholic France is 4.089 or 31 to every 
million. 

Roman Catholic Austria is 1.325 or 36 to every 
million. 

Roman Catholic Bavaria is 311 or 68 to every mill- 
ion. 

Roman Catholic Sicily is 174 or 90 to every million. 

Comment on figures is unnecessary. 

Why is it that the murderous secret societies in this 
nation, like the Mafia and Clan-na-gael, are largely 
Roman Catholic? 

Had not the Papacy better pull down its colors as a 
reformatory institution? Americans! stand against 
Rum, priestly rule, and for the Little Red School 
House. 

Roman Activity. 

Hon. Henry Baldwin, of Atlantic City, N. J., in an 
address to the American People, dated October, 1890, 
says: 

"Do not let us forget that a conspiracy was formed 
at Vienna, in 1828, to destroy the institutions of the 
United States by subversion under cover: "To pro- 
mote the greater activity of Catholic missions in Amer- 
ica.' * * * 

The consolidation, amalgamation and confederation 
of Catholic social, beneficiary and military organiza- 
tions has been remarkable during the last year. 



• RUM AND ROME. 75 

The attack upon the public schools has been unre- 
mitting. * * * 

Three-fifths of all the offices in the land are held by 
foreigners, and seven-eights of these three -fifths are 
Eoman Catholic j * * * 

Legislation is largely in favor of the foreigner and 
against the Americans. * * * " 

"Catholic Military Organizations ! " Why do we 
not read of "Methodist," or "Baptist" "Military Or- 
ganizations ? " 

Oswald Keatings, L. L. D., who is well posted on 
Eoman affairs, says : 

"The secret societies directly under Jesuit control 
are combined under the name of the United States 
Volunteer Militia, and number seventy thousand men, 
all well armed, well drilled, and absolutely obedient." 

American Protestants, what clo you think of that ? 

What does a church need of an army? Why do 
Eomanists build the lower part of their churches like 
arsenals and store them with arms? Why are Catho- 
lic boys secretly drilled in military tactics? When Eo- 
manists are arming themselves is it not time for Pro- 
testants to wake up, unless they mean to he down and 
let Eome bring on her fagots, racks, pincers, and all 
the horrid instruments of the Inquisition to "root out 
heresy ? " 

Do you want your children to share the fate of thou- 
sands of heretics (?) who have been tortured and 



76 RUM, RAGS AND RELIGION. 

murdered in the most excruciating manner in lands 
where Rome has had full sway ? Has the spirit of '76 
all died out? 

Do we want this nation blessed as the Holy (?) 
Church has blessed Spain, Portugal, Mexico, and 
South America ? 

Mr. Philip Walsh, of Philadelphia — himself a Roman 
Catholic — returned from a trip abroad, and here is 
what he says of Spain: "I don't know what Spain 
was when Washington Irving was there, but I know 
what it is now, and if I owned Spain and Hades I 
would sell Spain." 

Rome and Ignorance. 

Rome believes in ignorance for the masses. 

The Catholic World says : 

"The best ordered and administered state is that 
in which the few are well educated and lead, and the 
many are trained to obedience, are willing to be di- 
rected, content to follow and do not aspire to be lead- 
ers." 

Educate the few and make ignorant vassals of the 
masses ! That is not the American idea. 

The World also adds : 

" We believe the peasantry in old Catholic countries 
two centuries ago, were better educated, although for the 
most part unable to read or ivrite, than are the great 
body of the American People to-day." How does that 



RUM AND ROME. 77 

sound under the shadow of our Free Schools ? 

An American official stationed at Eorae, said that 
the humblest district school in the backwoods of 
America was infinitely superior to the parochial schools 
of Eome. 

Eev. Dr. Greene, visiting at Pachuca, writing to Dr. 
James King, of New York, says: "Potatoes sell for 
a penny apiece, and you buy them one at a time, for 
the seller cannot count." 

Eome has controlled Mexico for nearly three hun- 
dred years and yet the Parochial schools have not 
taught the people to count two potatoes ! 

Mr. "William Wheeler has made a tabular statement 
of the illiteracy of eight Eoman Catholic and eight 
Protestant countries in which he shows that the illiter- 
acy in the Eoman Catholic group is 14.fi times greater 
than in the Protestant group. A religious system 
which turns out an average of 60 illiterates out of 
every 100 inhabitants in countries it controls should 
have no voice in our public education. 

Eome educates the priesthood to some extent, but 
her communicants must be content with bread and 
catechism. She drove the Bible out of many of our 
schools, because she was afraid of it; now she calls 
them "Godless," and clamors for money for her own 
schools where her religion is taught. She drove one of 
the ten commandments out of her Bible because it was 
against image worship. 



78 RUM, RAGS AND RELIGION. 

The Catholics must surrender their reason and obey 
the voice of the church as the voice of God. 

The reply of a coal heaver to a Protestant's ques- 
tion, "What do you believe, Patrick?" may be highly 
commended by an interested priesthood. "Believe," 
said Patrick, " Sure I believe what the Catholic church 
believes." " Well, what does the Catholic church be- 
lieve ?" "Sure, man, the church believes what I believe." 
"Well, Pat, what do you both believe?" "By my 
soul, sir, we both believe alike." Implicit faith! and 
implicit ignorance ! 

Turn on the Light. 

Piev. Perry Chandler, of Lewiston, Maine, well says : 
"Let the light of intelligence once reach the dark 
abyss of ignorance and superstition in the Romish 
church and it would cause a stir that would shake 
the throne of Rome. Until that time let us not be 
afraid to speak out and sound the alarm all along the 
line. Rome is not afraid to speak out and speak with 
a tongue so tainted with treason that it is enough to 
cause the Stars and Stripes to blush and the Goddess 
of Liberty to turn pale." 

Yes, let Protestants turn on the light, and turn it on 
quick. Rome dreads the light of intelligence, hence 
she makes war on the Bible, the common schools, and 
seeks to pervert history. Look at "Darkest Italy." 



' RUM AND ROME. 79 

"Over 200,000 persons reside in absolutely un- 
wholesome cellars; 9,000 inhabit caves and hollows 
on rocks and mountain sides. In 1,700 communes 
bread is only tasted on festive occasions, and in 4,695 
meat is never in demand. In 600 communes it is im- 
possible to secure medical aid, and 110,000 Italians 
suffer from pellagra — a disease caused by living on 
maize, affected by a parasitic fungus. Finally, 63 
persons out of 100 cannot read or write. What has 
not Eomanism left undone in the beautiful land where 
it has so long held sway ?" 

Who Controls the Cities? 

Eum and Eome mass their forces in our cities and 
soon take control of them. The cities largely control 
the politics of the state and nation. Prof. Andrew D. 
White says : 

"Without the slightest exaggeration we may assert 
that, with very few exceptions, the city governments 
of the United States are the very worst in Christendom 
— the most expensive, the most inefficient, and the 
most corrupt." 

A recently elected Irish alderman in Chicago said 
shortly before his election : 

"I have 750 saloons at my back. The people of 
the nineteenth ward are a people that is governed by 
the saloons — not by the press. I am as good as elected 



80 RUM, RAGS AND RELIGION. 

It is to the nineteenth ward that one would naturally 
look for the perfect fruit of these benefits. A large 
majority of its population belongs to the Roman Catho- 
lic faith. In that ward is the great Twelfth Street Je- 
suit church, whose many services are crowded. There 
are six parochial schools with nearly 5,000 pupils be- 
longing to that church, most of whom live in the nine- 
teenth ward. There are nearly as many children in 
the parochial as in the free schools. The former were 
established so many years ago that there has been 
abundant time for them to show their beneficent 
workings. 

Rev. Dr. Harcourt says : "The Roman Catholic 
Church hi the United States is now controlled by the 
Jesuits. They have a hand in the politics of all our 
large cities. They sell the vote of the people to the 
highest bidder." 

Rev. R. S. McArthur, D. D., of New York said in a 
Boston address: 

"When a man was renominated in New York for 
the highest municipal office, who was spoken of in 
several of the papers almost daily, and in at least one 
pulpit, as a "self-confessed criminal," and challenged 
to bring action against them for the charge, what did 
his party do? Repudiate him? No, they rose up 
and re-elected him with an increased majority. And 
this man was an ignorant Jesuit, a Romanist; so 
ignorant that he was challenged by some of the daily 



RUM AND ROME. 81 

papers to write an ordinary business letter with ordin- 
ary accuracy, and would not accept the challenge. 
Archbishop Corrigan is practically the mayor of New 
York to-day, and that may account for our having the 
worst government under God's Heavens." 

Father Chiniquy in his book, "Fifty Years in the 
Church of Kome," uncovers the whole plot laid in the 
city of Buffalo in 1851 to capture the cities of the 
land and thus get control of the nation. 

Eome already rales New York, Baltimore, Chicago, 
St. Paul, New Orleans, Mobile, Savannah, Cincinnati, 
Albany, Troy, Milwaukee, St. Louis, San Francisco, 
besides a multitude of smaller cities and towns. 

The Douay veesion of the Bible has been substituted 
for the Protestant Bible that has been used in the City 
Hah, New York. 

Of the 1,900 policemen in Chicago 1,559 are Irish- 
men. Give us the Protestant Bible, Protestant teach- 
ers, and Protestant officers. 



82 RUM, RAGS AND RELIGION. 



IX. 

KOME, A POLITICAL PAETY. 

Leo XIII, in his encyclical letter, November, 1885, 
says: 

"All Catholics must make themselves felt as active 
elements in daily political life in the countries where 
they live. They must penetrate wherever possible in 
the administration of civil affairs. * * All Catho- 
lics should do all in their power to cause the constitu- 
tions of states and legislatures to be modeled on the 
principles of the true church." 

Patriots of America, how do you like the above ? 

Dr. Harcourt says : 

"If Komanism were a strictly religious system its 
growth in this country would not excite alarm ; but the 
fact is that the Roman Catholic church is the most per- 
fectly organized and thoroughly drilled political party in 
the land. The rank and file of it are completely under 
the control of the party leaders, namely the priests. 
The Eoman Catholic government is in direct opposition 
to our republican ideas." 

This Political Party is neither Piepublican nor Demo- 
cratic, but first, last and always for the Church of 



ROME, A POLITICAL PARTY. 83 

Eome. In proof of the above statements we quote 
from the St. Louis Globe (Catholic) : 

"It is the duty of every Catholic to vote for a Catho- 
lic candidate, for one who is not opposed to the Catho- 
lic religion, who is not an enemy of the church, and it 
is the duty of every faithful Catholic to vote against 
those who are enemies of our church and of our holy 
faith. Catholics must use the ballot to promote the 
cause of the church. A Catholic must be a Catholic 
in his social and in his political life, as well as in his 
religious life." And the Review says: "Catholics 
must get their politics from where they get their relig- 
ion — Rome." 

A Catholic cannot think or vote as he chooses. 

Leo XIII (1890) says : "The faithful should always 
religiously take as the rule of their conduct the polit- 
ical wisdom of the ecclesiastical authority." 

Monsignor Preston, Vicar General of New York, in a 
sermon January 1, 1888, said: "Every word Leo 
XIII speakes from his high chair is the voice of the 
Holy Ghost and must be obeyed. * * You say 
I will receive my faith from the Pontiff, but I will not 
receive my politics from him. This assertion is dis- 
loyal and untruthful. You must not think as you 
choose, you must think as Catholics." 

The Catholic World says (July, 1870) : 

"Education must be controlled by Catholic Authorities, 
and under education the opi?iions of the individual and the 



84 RUM, RAGS AXD RELIGION. 

utterances of the press are included, and many opinions 
are to be forbidden by the secular arm, under the author- 
ity of the church, even to tear and bloodshed." 

Again the Catholic World says of this government : 
"We do not accept it or hold it to be any government at 
all, or as capable of performing any of the proper 
functions of government. If the American Government 
is to be sustained and preserved at all it must be by 
the rejection of the principles of the Reformation (that 
is the government by the people) and the acceptance 
of the Catholic principle which is the government of 
the pope." 

The Catholic Review says : " When a Catholic can- 
didate is on a ticket and his opponent is a non-Catho- 
lic, let the Catholic candidate have the vote no matter 
what he represents. A strong medicine of this kind 
administered annually will tone the nervous system of 
the bigot and the politician." 

Blasphemy. 

Herr Kinkleman says : 

"We priests are above governments, above the 
emperors, kings and princes, as much as the heaven 
is above the earth. The angels and archangels are 
much below priests, for we can in the face of God 
pardon, which they have never been able to do. We 
are above the Virgin Mother of God, for Mary gave 



ROME, A POLITICAL PARTY. 85 

birth to Christ but once, while the priests create him 
every day. Again to a certain extent the priests are 
above God himself, for God must be at every time 
and in every place, at our disposal." 

Joseph Cook says in Marriage, page 12 : 

"The creed of Pope Pius IV. is put for subscription 
before every priest and every bishop. Every convert 
toKomanism must signify his assent to it. One of 
the sections reads: 'I do give allegiance to the bishop 
of Eome, and the sense is I do give political as well as 
religious allegiance.' " 

The oath of a Eonian Catholic is of no binding 
force. In Dr. John H., afterward Cardinal Manning's 
pamphlet, page 14, 1875, in reply to Mr. Gladstone, 
he makes the astounding declaration that "No pledge 
from Catholics was of any binding force to ivhich Rome 
was not a party." 

Monsignor Preston, on the witness stand, November, 
1888, in New York, when asked if Eoman Catholics 
must obey their bishop, whether right or wrong, replied, 
"Yes." The question was repeated and again he 
answered, "They must obey, right or wrong." (Notes 
of hearing before the Committee on Education and 
Labor, U. S. Senate, page 79.) 

Our Constitution requires obedience to the laws of 
the United States, and loyalty to the government. 
Eome demands loyalty to the Pope, and no man can 
possibly be loyal to both at the same time. 



86 RUM, RAGS AND RELIGION. 

In a work prepared by Rev. P. X. Schouppe for 
Roman Catholic schools and colleges, and bearing the 
imprimatur of Cardinal Manning, we read (p. 278) : 
" The civil laws are binding on the conscience only so 
long as they are conformable to the rights of the 
Catholic Church." 

No Romanist, either home or foreign born, should 
become a citizen of this nation until he has renounced 
forever his allegiance to the Pope. 

The Jesuits 

are flooding this nation. 

"Driven from every other country under, heaven, 
they have found refuge in America, have amassed 
property, steadily gained in influence and power, until 
now in some of our great cities they control the ballot 
boxes, dictate to the secular press what shall be the 
tone of public opinion, and select the teachers for our 
children, and the lessons they shall be taught. Like 
the frozen serpent, in fable, who, warmed to life by 
kindness, rewarded the hospitality and care of his ben- 
efactor by stinging him to death; so the Jesuits have 
abused the religious liberty of America, and the hospi- 
tality of our nation by quietly, steadily, surely under- 
mining our most cherished institutions and seeking to 
subvert our whole nation." 

A part of the Jesuits' oath runs : 

U I do renounce and disoivn any Allegiance as due to any 



ROME, A POLITICAL PARTY. 87 

heretical King, Prince or State, named Protestant, or obe- 
dience to any of their inferior magistrates or officers. 

A man can be a Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian 
or no religionist and be a true American, but no man 
can be a Papist and be a loyal American. 

The ratio of increase of Popery is the exact ratio of 
decrease of civil liberty. The dominance of Popery in 
the United States is the certain destruction of our free 
institutions. What do Eome's occasional and deceit- 
ful pretentions of loyalty to the Stars and Stripes 
amount to in the light of her treasonable actions and 
utterances? Are Americans ready to let this alien 
heathen power, every breath full of treason, crush 
American institutions, and establish a reign of middle- 
age darkness in our fair land. 

America (Chicago), says — 

"Jesuitism had no use for the negro before the war; 
but now that he is a voter his value is appreciated, 
and Archbishop Ireland, at a recent dedication of a 
colored Roman Catholic Church at Washington, said : 
'The negro's vote should be counted when he became 
a Eomanist.' " 

It is said that the holding of a State Constitutional 
Convention in New York was prevented by the orders 
of the Eoman Pontiff, fearing that if a Convention 
should be held appropriations for Parochial Schools 
would be prevented. 

For practical purposes Romanism is a powerful Ec- 



88 RUM, RAGS AND RELIGION. 

clesiastico-political Machine moved by the finger of 
one man — the Pope. Here is one secret of her 
strength. She is a unit. Protestantism is every man 
thinking for himself. Catholics are not allowed to 
think as they please, but "Must think as Catholics." 
One man, thinking for millions of his subjects, and 
dictating their ballots can but be a power in any nation. 
The votes of the ignorant Eomanists count as much as 
those of the educated Americans. 

When Protestants become a unit in America for 
Americans , with their efforts as concentrated and per- 
sistent as Rome, the Beast will not live on this soil. 
Protestants must present a solid front to this foe. 

Majorities. 

It may be said: "We Protestants are in the major- 
ity." It is not the numerical strength of Rome that 
constitutes at present its most alarming feature. It 
is concentration of action, its meddling with politics 
and our free institutions. She masses her forces in 
the cities and thus gains political ascendancy. 

What if Protestants are in the "majority" if the 
Romish minority, acting unitedly control the ignorant, 
and the saloon vote of the nation? In 1890, The 
Catholics in the United States numbered according to 
Sadliers Directory, 8,277,039. In the same year the 
Protestant denominations numbered 13,480,132. 
Should we number as the Romanists do, counting every 



ROME, A POLITICAL PARTY. 89 

child who has been christened into their fold or at- 
tends their services, the above figures would be more 
than doubled. The population of the United States 
in 1890 was 62,622,250. Notwithstanding the nu- 
merical strength of Protestants, and the vast number 
of no religionists, Eome acting as a unit, and in league 
with Eum, largely controls the nation. Protestants 
are in the majority, but they too often leave the Eomish 
minority to seize the reins of government. Priests go 
into politics through the confessional, and send their 
candidates into power. They often vote their laity as 
a unit in the interests of the Holy ( ?) Church, with in- 
tent to injure our institutions. Eome, controlling 
largely the liquor vote, sends her candidates to fill 
offices in the government, and to our legislative 
halls to make laws in her favor. When a large part 
of the officials are Eomanists, or their tools, can Pro- 
testants, though outnumbering Eome, hope to rule; 
The Eum Power will never be dethroned until the 
back of Popery is broken. 

If the Eomish Church could be eliminated from the 
nation, we could control the saloon business much 
easier, and abolish most of the political corruption. 

Years smce Hon. Mr. Gladstone said — 

"No more cunning plot was ever devised against the in- 
telligence, the freedom, the happiness and virtue of man- 
kind, than Romanism. 

Be v. W. J. Phillips, editor of The Protestant Ameri- 



90 RUM, RAGS AND RELIGION. 

can, says — 

"With our sixty millions of American and nominally 
Protestant citizens, we turn over to the nine million 
foreign-born Romanists ninety per cent of our munici- 
pal offices, and about sixty per cent of the state and 
national ! 

"We send our children to Eomish schools, and pay 
the Romanists hundreds of dollars a year to educate 
(make Romanists of) them. Then we give fifty cents 
or a dollar to send missionaries to Mexico, Brazil, etc., 
to convert the Romanists to Christianity ! 

"We submit to having Romanists legislate the Bible 
out of our schools, and the Romish catechism and pray- 
er book into them. We preach against worshiping 
idols, yet encourage the very thing we preach a- 
gainst by contributing to the Romish church and their 
so-called charitable institutions. 

I wonder if the people of this nation know that five 
out of six of our United States navy are the sworn dupes 
of a foreign enemy ! that the Romish confessional box 
has been built upon our naval ships, and the Pope wor- 
ship of the dark ages is the only kind of worship allowed 
upon many of our ships of war. 



Our people think that the moral influence of the 
convent is so fine, and yet in the city of Rome, where 
the Pope and 7,000 priests and nuns live, out of every 



ROME, A POLITICAL PARTY. 91 

4,000 children born 3,000 are illegitimate. In San 
Salvador it is worse, for there ninety-four per cent of 
the children are born out of wedlock ! 
The 

Secular Press, 

as a rule is closed by the hands of the Jesuits to facts 
favoring Protestantism. A Papist is in connection 
with nearly every daily in the nation. The great 
Sabbath-breaking dailies are mainly under their con- 
trol. The Associated Press is also largely under their 
dictum, hence the frequent laudations of Eome, and 
silence in reference to Protestantism. Eome now 
boldly declares her purpose. Let us awake, and heed- 
ing our own Washington's advice, "Put none but 
Americans on guard." And we would add, put no 
man on guard who is a Eomanist or a Liquorite. 

We are under Jesuitical surveillance, we are largely 
in the hands of the enemy already. Eome is rich, 
and growing richer. With her vast income from her 
subjects, her enormous steals, through our legislative 
bodies, she accumulates the most valuable property, 
and is thus storing up power to subdue this nation. 

Dr. Strong says — 

"The authorities of New York, during the eleven 
years preceding 1880, gave to the Eoman Church 
real estate valued at $3,500,000, and money to the 
amount of $5,827,471 — this in exchange for Eomish 
votes and every cent of it paid in violation of law." 



92 RUM, RAGS AND RELIGION. 

Rev. Dr. E. S. Mc Arthur shows that during the year 
1890 the Catholics received out of the public treas- 
ury of New York City the sum of $1,037,186.07. No 
church should carry the keys to our public treasuries. 

Roman Intolerance. 

Rev. Newton Wray (Protestant), of Lenox, Mass., 
says — 

"When several Mexican converts from Romanism 
were murdered by a Romish mob instigated by the 
priests three years ago, the New York Freeman's Jour- 
nal, one of the leading Roman Catholic papers of this 
country, endorsed the crime by a tirade against Pro- 
testant missionaries, which closed with these words : 
"If the killing of a few missionaries of this kind would 
keep others like them at home, we should almost — we 
papists are so wicked! — be inclined to say: On with 
the dance ; let joy be unconfined!" This sounds like 
an echo of the notes of joy that resounded through the 
Roman Catholic w^orld over the massacre of St. Bar- 
tholomew. * * 

"If Protestants have ever persecuted, they have 
done so in spite of their principles. The right of pri- 
vate judgment in religious matters is fundamental to 
Protestantism. Protestant nations have led the way 
in abolishing persecution. But the Roman Church 
persecutes because it is her principle to do so, a fact 
exemplified to-day, as before noted. The Inquisition 



ROME, A POLITICAL PARTY. 93 

was her creature." 

The Inquisition is her creature to-day and she is 
only waiting for temporal power sufficient to apply the 
horrid instruments of tortue. Where concessions are to 
be made Eome is inflexible, and Protestants must yield, 
as when a Protestant wishes to marry a Catholic, both 
parties must bind themselves to bring up their children 
in the Catholic faith. 




STROKE THE LEOPARD AND BE BITTEN! 



Rome persistently solicits funds of Protestants for 
her institutions, but refuses to aid Protestants because 
the fundamental principles of Protestantism are wrong 
(?). So declares Monsignor Capel to Protestants who 
had helped to build a Catholic Church in Bedford, 



U RUM, RAGS AND RELIGION. 

England. Moody darkens his record by recently giv- 
ing $500 to Eomanism. 

The rapacity and intolerance of Rome knows no 
limit. 

Protestants who stroke this leopard little realize 
what they are doing. They are feeding the monster 
who seeks to devour their liberties. That Eomanism 
is the same in spirit we see from her own utterances. 

The Western Watchman (Roman Catholic) published 
at St. Louis, says — 

"Protestantism, — we would draw and quarter it; we 
would impale it and hang it up for crow's meat, we 
would tear it with pincers, and fire it with hot irons, 
we would fill it with molten lead and sink it in hell 
fire, a hundred fathoms deep." 

Bishop Ryan, of the Roman Catholic Church, recent- 
ly said in Philadelphia : 

" We maintain that the Church of Rome is intoler- 
ant — that is, that she uses every means in her power 
to root out heresy. The church tolerates heretics 
when she is obliged to do so : but she hates them with 
a deadly hatred, and uses all her power to annihilate 
them. If ever the Catholics should become a consider- 
able majority, which in time will surely be the case, 
then will religious freedom in the United States come 
to an end. Our enemies know how the church treated 
heretics in the middle ages, and how she treats them 
to-day, where she has the power. We no more think 



ROME, A POLITICAL PARTY. 95 

of denying these historic facts than we do of blaming 
the Holy God and the princes of the church for what 
they have thought fit to do." 

The Boston Pilot says — 

''There can be no religion without an Inquisition," 
the power to punish or kill those who differ from Pap- 
ists. 

Eomanism is the same in spirit to-day that it was in 
the days of the St. Bartholomew massacre. 

Kome boasts of her unchangeable nature. She may 
occasionally exhibit some meekness where she is gain- 
ing power, in order to conciliate the people ; but where 
she has the power she is the same intolerant, cursed, 
political system as ever. 

Dr. Mc Arthur in a late issue of the Christian In- 
quirer of New York says : — 

"A Catholic connected with one of our city papers 
said to me a few months ago : 'I am a Catholic and a 
Jesuit, and I wish we had the Inquisition with rack 
and fagots for you heretics, and perhaps we shall have 
it some day.' " 

Father Chiniquy said in Music Hall, Boston, (1891) : 

"That at the command of the Pope no loyal servant 
of the Church would hesitate to kill his Protestant 
neighbor. A Protestant gentleman in Toronto hear- 
ing him make this statement in a lecture a short time 
ago, took exceptions to it as harsh, bigoted and exag- 
erated. At the instance of his wife he called in a, 



96 RUM, RAGS AND RELIGION. 

Catholic servant of undoubted veracity, and repeating 
Father Chiniquy's statement to him, asked if it were 
true. After long silence the servant with tears ac- 
knowledged it, saying : "Father Chiniquy has said the 
truth. Never trust a Koman Catholic with your life, 
because if the priest tells him to cut your throat he 
will do it." 

Eoman Catholic Theology teaches that it is a duty, 
when the church commands it, for them to kill Pro- 
testants, where it can be done without any danger for 
themselves. Their secret books teach it is not a sin 
for them to kill Protestants. 

The first gun fired on Fort Sumter was by the 
Eoman Catholic Beauregard. 

In the dark days of the Eebellion, the Pope sent a 
letter — 

"To the illustrious and honorable Jefferson Davis P 
President of the Confederate States of America." 

In the above the Holy (?) Father acknowledged the 
Confederacy as an independent nation. He concluded 
the letter with these words : 

"We also pray the same all clement Lord of Mercies 
to shine upon your excellency the light of His divine 
grace and to unite you and ourselves in bonds of per- 
fect love." 

Father Chiniquy clearly proves in his book that 
Eome was responsible for the assassination of Abraham 
Lincoln. Every one implicated in the affair was a 



ROME, A POLITICAL PARTY. 97 

Catholic. Seventy-five per cent, of the deserters from 
the Union army were Irish Roman Catholics. The 
Mafia and Clan-na-gael are largely Roman Catholic. 
Lafayette frequently said to his American friends, 
"If anything disturbes your liberties, look out for the 
invisible hand of the Jesuits." Times have changed: 
the hand is no longer invisible. Their purpose to 
dominate over the institutions of our land is no longer 
concealed ; it is boldly proclaimed, and with an imper- 
tinence that is amazing they claim the exclusive right 
to educate the youth of the country, and to make that 
claim good they dare us to the contest. 

AWAKE ! AWAKE ! 

In the light of the bloody Inquisitions of the past, of 
the persecutions now carried on in this and other na- 
tions, in the light of the unchanging nature of Popery, 
Americans who love their liberty should bestir them- 
selves! Docile Protestants! How they sleep! 
Will it take the screams of Inquisition's victims to 
arouse them? The blindness and stupidity of many 
Protestants on this question is equaled only by the 
ignorance and intolerance of Rome. 

We need another Reformation. We need a thou- 
sand Luthers in this land to thunder "danger ahead" 
in the ears of the people. 

Some of the Protestant churches themselves seem to 
be traveling towards Rome, 



98 RUM, RAGS AND RELIGION. 

H. Grattan Guinness, F. E. G. S. says in his 
Eomanism and The Reformation : 

"I would urge you to avoid all tampering with the 
bastard Romanism which is called Ritualism or High 
Churchism, and which abounds, alas, all over England. 
It is simply Romanism slightly diluted, Popery dis- 
guised with a thin veil. Wherever you have a "priest" 
instead of a preacher, an "altar" instead of a com- 
munion table, wax candles instead of the sunshine of 
divine truth, ceremonial instead of sound doctrine, 
sacraments instead of saving grace, intoned liturgies 
instead of earnest, heartfelt prayers, splendid music 
instead of spiritual worship, gorgeous vestments in- 
stead of gospel truth, tradition and "the Church" in- 
stead of "as it is written," and crossings instead of 
Christ, there you have Romanism no matter what it may 
be called." And the same exhortation is needed "in 
Darkest America." 

Too many of the Protestants are feeding the lion 
which means to rend them in pieces. 

Dr. McGlynn, who knows the Roman Machine, 
says : "Show your teeth to it rather than be too hum- 
ble before it." 

Verily we are sleeping over a grumbling volcano, 
charged with the dynamite of Rum and Rome, ready 
to blow the Bible, the public school and true freedom 
out of the nation. The toleration of Rome in Amer- 
ica threatens her ruin. And now abides Monopoly, 



ROME, A POLITICAL PARTY. 99 

Whiskey and Eomanism, but the worst of these isr 
Eomanism, 

Dr. Schaff once said in one of his great speeches : 

"This country had its first conflict for its independ- 
ent existence, its second was for its unbroken unity, 
the third will be for its institutions." 

What now shall we say of Protestants who help vote 
Eomanists into office? 

In view of Kome's treasonable utterances, and her 
avowed intention to rule America, the Patriots of all 
parties should at least subscribe to the following: 

"I hereby pledge my most sacred word of honor, 
that so long as I live I will never vote for, nor appoint, 
nor counsel or advise others to vote for or appoint any 
Eoman Catholic to any official position whatever." 

This pledge taken and kept by the patriots of the 
nation, will effectually and forever remove the threat- 
ening encroachments of the Eomish Church and as- 
sure the perpetuation of our loved institutions. 

Awake thou that deepest. 



100 RUM, RAGS AND RELIGION. 



X. 

"THE WAY OUT." 
The Church Should Lead. 

The principles of the Gospel of Christ fully em- 
braced would not only save men from any hell in the 
future life, but largely from the Hell of Poverty and 
suffering on earth. 

These principles put into full operation by the 
human family would give bread to the hungry, clothes 
to the naked, and homes to the homeless. The gospel 
of Jesus Christ is the only safe, substantial, solid and 
lasting philosophy for the abolishment of mental, 
moral and material poverty. 

Though myriads of professed Christians are far from 
being what they ought, yet it is a fact that those na- 
tions which have the Bible furnish the least "Rags." 

The Bible and Paper Bags. 

The Christian says — 

"It seems to be quite well understood that the re- 
ligion of Jesus Christ tends to diminish raggedness and 
wretchedness. Undoubtedly this is true ; but there is 
another thing which is also true, and that is, that no 



THE WAY OUT. 101 

country which has an open Bible exports paper rags to 
any considerable extent; but all countries where the 
Bible is prohibited have rags to sell. So the paper 
makers of America buy rags in Italy, Leghorn, Spain, 
Portugal, Turkey, Bussia, and in every country ivhere 
clothing is used and ivhere the Bible is not read by the 
common people. 

According to statistics and estimates it is said that 
some 2,000,000,000 pounds of paper is produced an- 
nually: one -half of which is used for printing, a sixth 
for writing, and the remainder is coarse paper for pack- 
ing and other purposes. The paper product for the 
United States is estimated to average 17 pounds per 
head for its population. The Englishman comes next, 
with about 12 pounds per head, the educated German 
takes 8 pounds, the Frenchman 7 pounds, the Italian 
3 pounds, the Spaniard l± pounds, the Bussian 1 
pound annually ; the consumption of paper being about 
in proportion to the education and intellectual and 
political activity of the people, and the education and 
intellectual activity of the people being in exact propor- 
tion to their familiarity with the Word of God, the en- 
trance of which giveth light and understanding to the 
simple. 

When people are deprived of the Book which God 
has given they have comparatively little interest in 
any other book, but sink into ignorance, intemperance, 
stolidity and degradation; but when the Word of God 



102 RUM, RAGS AND RELIGION. 

comes to their minds, it affords an intellectual stimu- 
lus, and sets men thinking and acting, and they speedily 
find use for all their paper rags, and are glad to send 
abroad and purchase more ; which can always be ob- 
tained in countries where the Bible is prohibited." 

If the Gospel were fully embraced by all nominal 
Christians, and the churches were up to the New Tes- 
tament standard of piety, these differences would be 
far more clearly seen. 

The Gospel embraced by the drunkard would save 
him from his besottedness, and by the drunkard-maker 
would save him from his avarice. The one would stop 
the drinking, the other the selling. 

It is difficult to get the drunkard saved, it is more 
difficult to get the drunkard-maker converted. "Ye 
will not come to me that ye might have life" is as true 
to-day as when uttered by the Master. We need the 
" Thou shalt not " of Sinai, and reiterated by the 
Son of God to stop men from making drunkards. We 
may succeed in rescuing some, but as long as the 
Government licenses the evil, the tide of death 
will roll on. Much of Gen. Booth's "Way Out" is 
worthy of great praise. May he succeed in saving 
thousands. He may have prohibition in his "colonies" 
in England and elsewhere, but as long as the English 
Government legalizes the dram shop so long will mill- 
ions continue to be pauperized and degraded. 

As all drunkards and drunkard-makers "will not 



THE WAY OUT. 103 

come to Christ for life," we need national and enforced 
prohibition to wipe out the curse in England and Amer- 
ica. We are our brother's keeper to this extent, we 
should not suffer, much less license, evil to come upon 
him. 

The Church. 

The Protestant Church members could stop this tide 
of death if they would, and would if they were all alive 
on this issue. 

The Protestant Church stands to a great extent 
dazed before the power of Burn and Eome. Eome has 
the machinery at hand to stamp out the grog shops 
quickly, but to do so would take away her stepping 
stone to political supremacy. The great difficulty does 
not lie in the want of power in the Gospel to save men 
and check evil, but in the failure to come in contact 
with the great battery of Eternal Truth. 

Let the Church take hold with both hands of the 
Divine electrodes, not trying to grasp one of them with 
one hand while clinging to sin with the other, not 
reaching up with one hand after eternal life, and reach- 
ing down with the other for a rum license, and the 
Church would soon receive a shock of power that would 
lead to the pulverizing of the liquor curse. The 
Church is weak because of its compromise with evil. 
It has in many instances become too near like the 
world to lift it out of its degradation. Let it go in for 



104 RUM, RAGS AND RELIGION, 

an eternal divorce from sin in every form, live out the 
principles of the Gospel; let pulpit and pew become 
charged with holy fire, red hot from off God's own al- 
tars around the Throne, and Pium would be dethroned. 
Let the Church no longer seek for ministers who preach 
to please, but those who preach to save; ministers who 
will preach as if Christ himself sat in one chair of the 
pulpit, the angel Gabriel in the other, and they ex- 
pected to be summoned to judgment at the close of 
then sermons, and the reform will go in awful power. 

"$25,000" is too much for any minister to receive for 
preaching the Gospel of him who said, "My kingdom 
is not of this world." The "call" to a large salary is 
often accepted when the voice of God is not in the 
"call," thus giving occasion to the world to slur the 
ministry. 

High salaries for government officials is a proline 
source of evil, and high salaries in the Church also 
work mischief. They tempt men to enter the sacred 
desk as a "profession" without any "call" from God. 
The minister whom God sends should be comfortably 
supported, but he who sends himself, or whom the 
Devil sends, better get behind the counter or plow as 
soon as possible. 

Some of the 

Laboring Men. 

plead for the saloon in the cities as a place of resort 
for the toiling masses at the close of day. Many have 



THE WAY OUT. 105 

no yards ; their only place to spend an evening being 
on the door step, or on the sidewalk. Living in over 
crowded tenements, poverty on every hand, the house 
often rilled with vermin, the weary laborer leaves his 
wretched abode for the attractions and companionship 
of the saloon, and there drinks that which only in- 
creases his wretchedness. Our churches are often too 
"high toned" for him. Too much style and "dress 
parade" and he feels he cannot keep up with it. 

The true Church of Christ is an excellent anti-pover- 
ty society; a false church run by rapacious priests, 
whose cry is gold, gold, is a good poverty-making ma- 
chine for the masses. 

Immense church edifices often stand cold, dead and 
silent the most of the six days in the week, their tall 
spires pointing toward the heaven the worshippers hope 
to gain. Many of them open on Sunday, virtually to 
the rich alone, or to those who are able to pay for 
rented pews, and help support the extravagance of an 
institution founded in the name of Him who said "The 
poor have the Gospel preached to them." Perhaps 
the saloon across the way is running seven days in the 
week, possibly by the cupidity, cowardice or sanction 
of some of the members who worship in the great ca- 
thedral. 

We need more churches, not more cathedrals; more 
Christians, not more church members; more practical 
piety and less outward display. 



106 RUM, RAGS AND RELIGION. 

Who Ee aches the Masses ? 

The city of New York contains 425 churches and 
10,000 saloons. The saloon accommodations eclipse 
those of the churches. If the church sittings average 
500 each, the total number of persons who can be ac- 
commodated is but 212,500 or about one-fifth of the 
population of the great metropolis, which numbers one 
and one-half million. 

Dr. Strong says in "Our Country" : 

"The city, where the forces of evil are massed, and 
where the need of Christian influence is peculiarly 
great, is from one -third to one-fifth as well supplied 
with churches as the nation at large, and church ac- 
commodations in the city are growing more inadequate 
every year. * * * 

South of Fourteenth St., New York, there is a pop- 
ulation of 541,000, for whom there is but one Protes- 
tant church to every 5,000 souls. * * There are 
wards in New York and other large cities where there 
is but one Protestant church to every ten or fifteen 
thousand souls." 

Eev. H. A. Schauffler, in an address at Saratoga in 
1884, said: 

"There is a certain district (in Chicago) of which a 
careful examination has been made, and in that dis- 
trict out of a population of 50,000, there are 20,000 
under twenty years of age, and there are Sunday- 



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School accommodations for less than 2,000 • that is, over 
18,000 children and youth are compelled to go without 
the Gospel of Jesus Christ because the Christian 
Churches are asleep. * * There are 261 saloons 
and dago shops and other vile places, and the Christian 
Church offers Sunday- School accommodations to only 
2,000!" 

Verily the saloon reaches the masses! 

How Shall the Church Eeach the Masses ? 

One way to reach them is to have ample church accom- 
modations. Kather than put $1,000,000 in a single 
church, we better erect ten churches at $10,000 each, 
or five at $20,000 each, and place them where most 
needed. Then why should the saloon run six or seven 
days in the week and the church only one ? Church 
services should be held in the great centers of popula- 
tion as often as practicable. Place in the building, 
easy of access to the sidewalk, a reading room and 
library, open day and evening and free to all to come 
and spend an hour in quiet, away from temptations to 
sin. Cover the walls- with brilliant and instructive 
pictures, instead of the licentious paintings so often 
found in the saloon. Let a spiritually minded person 
be hi charge of the room, ever ready to give advice 
and comfort to those in distress. 

How "reach the masses?" By more thorough conse- 
cration to God, more holy living, and by looking after 



108 RUM, RAGS AND RELIGION. 

the temporal and spiritual needs of the wretched 
around us. What cares a starving man about costly 
temples built in the name of Eeligion to save him from 
a hell hereafter? He wants deliverance from his 
present hell. Where shall he go and to whom shall 
he look, if not to those who profess to believe in Christ 
who preached his Gospel to the poor? It is useless to 
preach to a man who says "I'm starving!" Fill his 
stomach, then he may listen to your sermon. Jesus 
fed the hungry as he preached to them the word of 
Life. 

Make All Your Seats Free. 

We have no right to sell the right to hear the Gospel 
preached. But you would turn all our houses of 
worship into "Missions." Did Christ come to earth 
on anything but a "Mission" of Mercy? Did he send 
the apostles on any other "mission?" What is the 
great "mission" of the church in this world if it is not 
to reach the people and carry to them the glad tidings 
of salvation? The church is the last place people 
should visit for the sake of display. Every church 
and every member of it ought to be a home missionary 
society, carrying salvation by precept and example to 
lost men. Let the church members put one side 
their sinful indulgences, give Scripturally and system- 
atically of their income to the Lord's cause, and the 
treasury will be full without any compromise with evil. 



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"Seventy business men of New York subscribed $1,- 
400,000, or $20,000 each, toward the Metropolitan 
Opera House in that city, which was completed two 
years ago; and this without receiving or expecting pe- 
cuniary return. Where are the seventy men who will 
give one -half that amount to home missions? Is the 
love of Italian opera a more powerful motive than love 
of country, love of souls, and love of Christ ?" — Our 
Country, 1885. 

Many societies which have sprung up as "aids" to 
the church have come into existence because of a lack 
of spirituality in the church itself. When the Holy 
Spirit leaves, props and aids become necessary. The 
principles of the Gospel fully carried out in the church 
would abolish many of the so-called aids. 

No Compromise. 

Let the Church or no part of it stand for license 
either high or low, but for such prohibition as was 
thundered from Sinai when God gave eight out of ten 
prohibitory commandments to his chosen people ; yea, 
let the Church cease to pray for the coming of Christ's 
kingdom while it aids in any manner, directly or in- 
directly in the perpetuation of the Devil's Empire. 
Moral suasion by prayer, argument and vote, prohibi- 
tion with a power behind it to make it prohibit is the 
■ "way out" of the Eum business, and the Church has it 



110 RUM, RAGS AND RELIGION. 

in her power to down this demon, m the name of 
God, wake up, ye slumbering servants of Christ, and 
throttle this great foe of humanity. God gave his 
chosen people prohibition. 

H. L. Hastings says — 

"We are indebted to Moses for the establishment of 
the 

Fiest Total- Abstinence Society 

of which history makes record, the Nazarites, who, in 
separating themselves unto the Lord, separated them- 
selves from wine and strong drink, and everything con- 
nected therewith (Num. vi. 1-4) ; a body of men among 
whom may be counted Sampson the athlete, Samuel 
the righteous judge, and John the Baptist, than whom, 
of those that are bom of women, no greater teacher 
has arisen. 

Moses also furnishes us the first example of stringent 
legislation against intemperance, and presents to our 
view a nation which, under his rule, for forty years 
trod the wilderness, neither drinking wine nor strong 
drink. And by making habitual drunkenness a capi- 
tal offense, he expressed a vivid sense of the terrible 
enormity of this madness, which is a fountain of all 
evils, iniquities, and crimes. And the results of this 
legislation still abide in the temperate and orderly 
character of the Jewish people. 



THE WAY OUT. Ill 

Why are not our prisons crowded with Jewish crim 
inals, our streets thronged with Jewish beggers, our 
alms-houses filled with Jewish drunkards and paupers ? 
Every one knows that they are filled with people from 
whom the Bible has been withheld, or who have never 
been permitted to peruse and study the law of Moses 
and the teachings of the prophets and apostles. Surely 
the thousands of criminals who have had no Bibles to 
read, or who have been unable to read them, have not 
found their way to prison by following " the mistakes 
of Moses." 

Eeckeation. 

Recreation and pastime are needed by many who 
are toiling ten or twelve hours a day at monotonous 
work in close and crowded shops, stores and factories. 

Unquestionably, a lack of wholesome pastimes often 
increases intemperance. The Saloon and Beer Garden 
offer the tired laborer, at the close of his day's toil, a 
place of resort. Speak to him on the evils of frequent- 
ing these places and he will tell you it is the only avail- 
able pastime for the laboring classes. 

What shall a man do who has no better place to go 
at close of clay, whose home is more forbidding than 
the saloon, and who has no time for excursions save on 
the Sabbath? Can anything be done? Yes. First 
make a legal half-holiday of Saturday afternoon. Let 
the toilers have this time to go to the parks, country or 



112 RUM, RAGS AND RELIGION. 

seashore. Then let all Sabbath excursions cease and 
let the day be observed as a day of rest and worship. 

Man, beast, and machinery can do more work and 
last longer by resting one-seventh of the time. 

This is not only the law of the Bible, but is also a 
law found in nature. 

The invention of labor-saving machinery makes it 
possible to lessen the hours of toil in many cases with- 
out a diminution of wages. Machinery may be used to 
relieve the burdens of the toilers, or it can be used to 
make them heavier. Let us offer the laborers some- 
thing better than the saloon as a resort, and thus dis- 
arm them of their only plausible argument against 
temperance reform. Open "Temperance Gardens," 
brilliantly lighted; place therein fine pictures, clean 
papers, and innocent recreations, but entirely free from 
temptations to vice. Many would come to these places 
who otherwise would visit the saloon. People who live in 
rural districts, with plenty of fresh air, green fields, 
singing birds, and running brooks have little realiza- 
tion of the oppressiveness connected with living and 
toiling in a densely populated city. 



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XL 

"THE WAY OUT." 
- . Emigration. 

We may put a high tariff on every article of 
merchandise that enters the nation, but as long as 
ignorant, vicious, foreign hordes come in to do the bid- 
ding of the Pope and Saloon, in electing Catholics, 
Eummies and unworthy foreigners to office, alas for us ! 

The Pope, unable to restore temporal power in Italy, 
is encouraging emigration to Africa and America. 

Why should we let that trinity of darkness, " Eum, 
Komanism and Eebellion," in free? Why should we 
let it in at all? Our open gates constitute a great 
menace to our civilization. 

The Converted Catholic says — 

" Colonel John B. Weber, Superintendent of Immi- 
gration, issued a statement of the immigration during 
the first three months of the present year, (1891), 
which shows that 67,876 immigrants were landed at 
New York, besides those that were received at other 
ports. Three -fourths of these immigrants were from 
Koman Catholic countries." 

The N. Y. World recently said — 




JJarwinianism Reversed. Behold America A. D. 2 ; 000, Unless 
Eminrationms Checked. 



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"During the seven days ending yesterday 17,166 
immigrants were landed at the Barge Office. This, it 
is said, beats the record of any other week in the 
history of immigration at this port. Fully one-third of 
the arrivals were Italians." 

Most of these aliens are under the dictum of Kum, 
or Rome, or both, and are speedily used by this com- 
bine in their own interests. Neither priest nor nun 
should be allowed as envoys from the Eomish church 
to meet emigrants on their arrival at our ports. 
Steamship companies have their paid agents in Europe 
gatheiing up this motley mass of ignorance, supersti- 
tion, and criminality, to ship to America. Verily we 
need protection from these dangerous hordes. We ob- 
ject to our land being the dumping ground for the 
filth of the earth. 

Americans are the laughing stock of the world. They 
have thrown wide open their doors to this mongrel 
throng, let them dominate American politics, and now 
cringe before them in the land of their forefathers. 
Many politicians are ready to kiss the feet of these 
aliens, before they are washed, in order to get their 
votes. 

These foreigners produce an excessive supply of 
laborers which crowds out Americans. 

The ignorant, bigoted, dissipated, aliens who come 
in free do ten fold more damage than if protection 
were thrown off from all imports and we had free trade 






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with the nations of the world. We have got the task 
yet of teaching them that there is a God in Israel and 
that Americans have American rights, bequeathed to 
them by their fathers, and that foreigners, and a for- 
eign Pope must respect them. 




POLITICIANS AFTER THE FOEEIGN VOTE. 

Some come to us who love true liberty, and who 
make as true and patriotic citizens as Americans. 

We do not object to these, but we protest against the 
admission of those masses who have left their country 
for their country's good. As we love our liberty we 
should keep out all criminal, vicious, and otherwise 
objectionable classes, especially the loyal subjects of 
the Pope, for no man can be true to Eome and America 



THE WAY OUT. 117 

at the same time. No Romanist should hold any posi- 
tion in the State, municipal or school system whatever. 
No man, native or foreign born, should vote who can- 
not read, write and speak the English language, (ex- 
cept the deaf and dumb). How ridiculous to allow 
people to vote who cannot read the Constitution of the 
United States, or write their own names. The votes of 
these ignoramuses, often bought up by the wholesale, 
count as much as votes of educated, thinking men. 
No foreigner and never a papist should hold the ballot 
until he has become thoroughly Americanized. Why 
should we Americans be obliged to stay here twenty- 
one years before we cast a ballot, while it is placed in 
'the hands of the alien almost as soon as he recovers 
from his sea-sickness ? 



118 RUM, RAGS AND RELIGION. 



XII. 

"THE WAY OUT." 
Liquor and Labor. 

The Prohibition of the Liquor Traffic would lessen 
the miseries of the working classes, aud greatly aid in 
settling the labor question. 

Bev. Sam Small says — 

" Mr. Henry George — he's discovered how to cure 
poverty. But I haven't seen any fellow cured yet. 
Over in Baltimore I stood on the steps of a hotel and 
saw 18,000 workingmen on Labor Day marching 
through the streets — many of them in worn-out shoes 
and tattered clothes; and the whole concern was 
marshaled by liquor- dealers riding on horses which the 
liquor-dealers owned — and which the fellows on foot 
had bought. In Chicago I saw another marching body 
of 18,000 workingmen, carrying a banner inscribed: 
* Our children cry for bread ! ' and they marched 
straight to a picnic-ground and drank 1,400 kegs of 
beer." 

Master Workman T. V. Powderly, in a speech in 
Cooper Union, said — 



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"If the power lies in you damn in thunder tones the 
liquor power that debauches the voters. One hogshead 
of whisky in the city of New York judiciously placed 
may make or unmake a President. Give out enough 
glasses of gin in this city and State and you place the 
dispenser in the chair of Washington. Where is Tam- 
many's power ? Is it not in the gin-mills ! " 

Prohibit Rum and much of the poverty will disap- 
pear. 

But the real labor question lies back of the Rum 
Traffic, and is whether the producers who are engaged 
in any legitimate industry shall enjoy the products of 
their own labor or whether civilized cannibals in the 
shape of monopolists, stock gamblers, etc., shall grow 
fat on the produce of others while producing nothing 
themselves. Shall a few in the unlimited accumula- 
tion of wealth be allowed to drive the mass into a cor- 
ner? 

The Workman' 's Advocate says — 

" ' There are fifty men in tins country who have it in 
their power to control the currency of the United 
States, to control her commerce, and at a day's notice 
to stop every wheel in the whole territory of the United 
States.' This was uttered by one of fifty millionaire 
monopolists at a public banquet." 

Wendell Phillips said — 

"If corruption seems rolling over us like a flood 
mark, it is not the corruption of the humbler classes. 



120 RUM, RAGS AND RELIGION. 

It is millionaires who steal banks, mills and railways; 
it is defaulters who live in palaces and make away 
with millions ; it is money kings who buy up congress : 
it is demagogues and editors in purple and fine linen, 
who give fifty thousand dollars for the presidency itself; 
it is greedy wealth which invests its thousand millions 
in rum, to coin money out of the weakness of its neigh- 
bor. These are the spots where corruption nestles and 
gangrenes the state. If humble men are corrupted, 
these furnish the overwhelming temptation. It is not 
the common people in the streets, but the money 
changers, who have intruded into the temple, that we 
most sorely need some one to scourge." 

We must limit individuals and corporations in the 
accumulation of riches. Infidels cite us to the 

"Mistakes of Moses," 

but no Jew, Jewish family or corporation of Jews could 
amass and hold unnecessary wealth from generation 
to generation while other families were starving around 
them. We are far from advising the re-enactment of 
the Jewish laws in reference to property, but we wish 
we had as wise and effective laws, and as well adapted 
to our day and generation as the Jews had for then- 
day and generation. Once in fifty years they had a 
jubilee. At this time old debts were cancelled, estates 
which had been sold reverted to their original owners. 



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The object of this law was that the rich might not op- 
press the poor, and that the poor might not be reduced 
to perpetual poverty. Every fifty years the bands of 
poverty and servitude were broken. 

Jesus said: "For ye have the poor always with 
you." But he did not say we should always keep 
them poor. 

Again H. L. Hastings says — 

" One of the peculiarities of the law of Moses was 
that provision which prohibited the priestly tribe from 
possessing real estate. They might have a house and 
garden, but no more. Vast possessions and broad 
acres were not for them. It is a curious fact that 
Moses' law, which is supposed to be at the bottom of 
all the priestcraft in creation, should contain this pro- 
vision. Such a law never was concocted by priests. 
Priests, in the nature of things, have great influence 
overmen; and when a priesthood becomes corrupt it 
exercises this influence for selfish ends. So, great 
hierarchies are continually accumulating wealth and 
lands. Indeed, allow them to work unchecked for a 
few generations and they would possess a large share 
of the property of a nation ; and in more than one in- 
stance revolutions and sweeping confiscations have been 
necessary to rescue the property of the people from the 
grasp of the priesthood. To-day, enormous amounts 
of wealth are in the hands of priests and ecclesiastics. 
They have not only the spiritual power which would 



122 RUM, RAGS AND RELIGION. 

naturally attach to them by virtue of their office, but 
also the power of enormous wealth, which, under the 
guise of religion, they have succeeded in accumulat- 
ing. Vast buildings and immense estates, in various 
countries, belong to priestly orders ; and these immense 
properties, protected by government and yet con- 
tributing nothing to defray its expenses, virtually im- 
pose a heavy tax upon the long suffering people." 

Strikes. 

"When money is allowed to accumulate in the hands 
of a few individuals or corporations, to the impoverish- 
ing of the poor, then comes the strike as an inevitable 
result. A union of tradesmen to control prices of 
merchandise inevitably leads to a union of laborers or 
producers to protect their interests. The combination 
of capital and formation of trusts for monopoly is a 
strike on the part of capital — a strike to make the rich 
richer. The strike on the part of the laborer is simply 
a combination of labor capital against monied capital 
— of muscle against gold. As long as any are per- 
mitted to accumulate wealth without limit, to the op- 
pression of producers, so long will there be a strike on 
the part of labor. 

Capital and labor should not be arrayed against 
each other. The labor troubles will never be settled 
until we have prohibition of Kum, of monopolies, of 



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individuals or corporations accumulating unlimited 
wealth, and rigidly restrictive and vigorously enforced 
emigration laws. 

Alien Land- Holders. 

Alien individuals and syndicates are purchasing mill- 
ions of acres of our best lands. Those who owe alle- 
giance to other governments should not be permitted to 
own a foot of land in this nation. 

The American Citizen says — 

"There are 21,241,900 acres of land under the di- 
rect control and management of thirty foreign indi- 
viduals or companies. There are 2,720,283 acres of 
land in Massachusetts, so that the men living in other 
countries, and owmg allegiance to other powers, own 
land enough to make ten states like Massachusetts, 
more than the whole of New England, more land than 
some governments own to support a king. The largest 
amount of land owned by any one man or corporation 
is owned by a foreign corporation called the Holland 
Land Company. Talk about alien land-holders in 
Ireland, there is twice as much land owned by aliens 
in the United States as there is owned by Englishmen 
in Ireland." 

America for Americans, and Americans for America. 

We must defend our Public Schools, as the bulwark 
of our liberties, against the aggressions of any foreign 
power. 






124 RUM, RAGS AND RELIGION. 

Let these be our mottoes : 

NO INQUISITION. 

NO LEGALIZED RUM TRAFFIC. 

NO ALIEN OWNERSHIP OF LANDS. 

NO UNION OF CHURCH AND STATE. 

NO WEALTH-ABSORBING MONOPOLISTS. 

NO INTERFERENCE WITH RELIGIOUS LIBERTY. 

NO ROMANISTS OR FOREIGNERS FOR AMERICAN 

OFFICES. 
NO ROMANIZED OR PERVERTED HISTORIES IN OUR 

PUBLIC SCHOOLS. 

NO PUBLIC MONIES FOR SECTARIAN SCHOOLS OR 

CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS. 

Let this pyramid of Americanisms be erected on this 
soil to stand to the end of the world. Let the govern- 
ment cease all complicity with the 

Great Poverty-Making Machine, 

the Liquor Traffic ; let it stop the flow of blood money 
to the Nation's Capital, and there will soon be bread in 
thousands of homes where now reigns famine, disease 
and death. 

If any government persists in bringing its subjects 
to "Bags" and wretchedness, through licensed evil, in 
order to fill its coffers with gold, then it should pension 
and take princely care of these, after it has robbed 
them of money, health, home and happiness. Instead 



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of this, it leaves them diseased and helpless, at the 
mercy of the policeman and poormaster. 

Let the government expenses be curtailed, and ex- 
travagant salaries be cut down, thus removing tempta- 
tion to seek office simply for gold. Let the overflow of 
the Treasury at Washington not be used to make the 
rich richer, but to better the condition of the people 
generally. 

In short, let us come up in Church and State to the 
Golden Eule, uttered by Him who spake as never man 
spake : 

" Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men 
should do to you, do ye even so to them." (Matt, vii, 12.) 

And Bum and Eags, Beggary and Wretchedness will 
flee from the face of the earth. 



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